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it is recorded to have been found near Berkhampstead, Herts, and 
near Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire. 
The Pasque Flower, A. pulsatilla, is not plentiful, but some- 
what widely distributed ; so a search for it on a chalk-down, or 
dry pasture, may not prove a mere wild-goose chase. It may be 
instantly known by the merest novice, so distinct is it in character ; 
the flower bell-shaped, and of a dull violet hue, the leaves all 
springing from the root, and cut into narrow segments. It is but a 
step from these to the Pheasant’s Eye, or Corn Adonis, Adonis 
autumnalis, which begins to flower during May in the open fields, 
and will continue flowering until October. 
It is impossible to hunt in a good country now without finding 
some of our native orchids, the characters of which will perhaps 
LEAVES OF COMMON WOODBUFF, ABBANGED IN A WHOBL. 
equally delight and puzzle the young botanist, such as the Monkey 
Orchis, Orchis macro,; the Pyramidieal Orchis, O. pyramidalis ; 
the Bee Orchis, Ophrys apifera, an extremely handsome imitative 
flower ; and the Spotted Palmate Orchis, Orchis maculata, the best 
known of all, and not the least beautiful. 
As we have near upon forty native species of Orchids, the be- 
ginner in field botany must not expect to make acquaintance with 
the whole of them without exercising much patience and perse- 
verance. They haunt copses, hedgerows, chalky downs, quarries, 
and railway cuttings. A few of them are beautiful, many of them 
are curious, all are interesting, and indeed there is not in these 
islands a tribe of plants more worthy of attentive study, both for 
their intrinsic merits as constituents of the British Flora, and their 
relations to the more gorgeous Orchids of the tropics which we 
cultivate with so much care in our hothouses. 
