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looked at the first glance quite like the pink incornata amongst which 
it grew, until the blotched leaves and very different lip became 
evident. In July 1919, Col. Gfodfery found in Anglesea a remark¬ 
able example of O. in car not a x macula t a ( Fuchs ii) — O. ambigua 
Kerner. The leaves were of the most massive incarnata type, un¬ 
spotted, and overtopping the stem; the flowers were pure white, but 
with tlat and deeply tritid lips. This gives the leaf of one parent 
and the flower of the other. 
Several figures of single flowers of O. incarnata are given in 
Journ. Bot. 1920, t. 556, and 1921, t. 559. The photograph now 
reproduced (t. 569) is from two Winchester plants of the standard 
pale pink colour. Though the details of the lips are not clear, the 
general habit is very well shown. In the text-figures, a rough idea 
of four types is given for comparison. A is the usual pattern and B 
the heavier pattern of var. pulchella, with a less reflexed lip. C gives 
a frequent type of O. prcetermissa, with spotted lip and unspotted 
sepals, whilst D gives the well-marked double loops of O. latifolia. 
It should be said that lines and streaks enter into the lip-pattern of 
O. prcetermissa in many cases, and that O. latifolia often has some 
spots and more or less broken lines on the lip. The lip-pattern of 
O. prcetermissa var. pulchella is of heavy broken lines somewhat 
intermediate in type between those of O. incarnata and latifolia. 
Plate 569. Orchis incarnata L., from specimens collected at 
Shawford, near Winchester. 
THE SALINE FLORA OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 
By the Rey. H. P. Reader, O.P. 
The earliest records of the occurrence of maritime plants in Stafford¬ 
shire are to be found in Shaw's History of Staffordshire (1800) 
and Clifford’s History of Tixall (circ. 1810). At that time the 
extraction of salt from the brine-springs constituted an extensive 
industry—now almost extinct—in a somewhat restricted area to the 
south-west of the town of Stafford, between the rivers Trent and Sow. 
Robert Garner in his Natural History of the County of Stafford 
mentions having seen some of these plants in situ (1842), and this 
seems to be the latest record. I have looked in vain through the 
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