MR. A. BENNETT ON EPIPACTIS ATRORUBENS. 187 
II. 
EPIPACTIS ATRORUBENS, A LITTLE KNOWN 
NORFOLK ORCHID. 
By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 
Read 2 yth September, 1910. 
The Rev. K. Trimmer, in his ‘Norfolk Flora,’ 1866, p. 141, 
records : “ E. latifolia as rare. In a fir plantation near 
Hyde Park, Docking. In a shady grove near the Hall, 
Docking.” 
He seems to have overlooked Mr. H. C. Watson’s note in 
‘ Cybele Britannica,’ ii. , 418, 1849, where he remarks : “ In 
1832 I gathered E. latifolia, as I then deemed it, on limestone 
rocks, by Loch Erboll, in Sutherland ; but the specimen in 
my herbarium appears to be E. ovalis ; which I think is the 
case also with one sent me from Norfolk by Miss Bell.”* 
In Topi. Botany, ed. 1, p. 373, 1874, Mr. Watson records : 
“ Epipadis atr or ubens = ovalis, Bab. 28. Norfolk, West. 
Bell sp.” 
In 1880 I wrote to Mr. Watson asking him if he still con- 
sidered the specimen to be E. ovalis, and he wrote : “ (Nov. 
9, 1880). The sp. is labelled, ‘ In a fir plantation, Docking, 
from a correspondent,’ Miss Bell. Of course as long ago it 
was sent as E. latifolia.” 
In most of its recorded habitats it is a plant of open 
exposure, and not of wood or plantation, and that induced 
me to write to Mr. Watson. 
In the Supplement to his ‘Norfolk Flora,’ the Rev. K. 
Trimmer records it as “ E. atronibens, Schult..” giving the two 
stations, and remarks : “ These two stations are about 
a mile and a half apart.” Although I have several times 
* Miss A. Bell of Stow Vicarage, 1832. 
