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NovEMBfciR, 1932. Tbi Orchids of Coro mayid el k alley, ■S.ff. 15- 
D. maculata, Sm., and D. palachila, Rogers, are found 
growing together, but once known can be distinguished quite easily 
D. longifolia, R.Br., has brownish flowers shaded like the 
garden wallflower. It, also, is common. 
Orthoceras strictnm, R.Br., flowers in the heat of summer on 
open mossy ground, often in places where Cedadenia deformis, 
R.Br., had been plentiful earlier in the season. 
For our last genus we come to the plants called “Green- 
hoods.” Of these I have not seen Pterostylis curta, R.Br., for 
some years. It may be exterminated. 
P, nana, R.Br., is very plentiful. One year I noted it as 
flowering from May to October, a remarkable flowering period 
for any orchid in one district. Occasionally one comes across a 
two-flowered plant of a species which usually has solitary flowers, 
and both this last species and the next have been found here- 
bearing two flowers. 
P, rohusta, Rogers, is the plant long known as P. reflexa,. 
R.Br., and, like many others of the genus, grows in large com- 
munities. 
P, pedunculata, R.Br., favours very moist places in this 
district. Its real home appears to be higher up in the hills. 
P. barbata, Lindk, is welt known by its hairy protruding 
labellum, and occurs in some scattered patches. 
P. pusilla, Rogers, is the sole representative of the summer- 
flowering greenhoods that I have found here. Our plant, which 
is found at Blackwood and Eden Hills as well, is slightly different 
in some small details to the type form. It is found in flower 
in November, and, unlike the type form, has no greea leaves 
then. 
One of our most interesting orchids, and the last in this 
list is P. vittata, Lindl. Nearly all nature lovers are acquainted 
with the flowers of this plant, and their sensitive labella. It is 
quite common at present, but may become scarce under grazing. 
This brings the number of species which I have found in 
this small locality to 41, and no doubt several more remain to 
be discovered in the future. Nature lovers will! fed that they 
need not do any extensive travelling in order to obtain an insight 
into the habits of these beautiful and fascinating plants, for 
Nature has been lavish in her distribution of them in our hills.. 
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