been done towards clearing up the history of this cilnous assemblage, all Wjwhjdi wore by Unnrais strangely con-
been done towaros i , imKtif6ra. On the contrary, in Uto last edition of the Species Phmtanm, no
f f l R * T W K W W B B W H B I They are m m which any botanist might work con
fewer than niM aisnnc 1 a considerable portion of interesting matter from the able pen of Pro.
f e i X * w i U b ? S K = s e c o n d volume of Dr. Schrader’s Botanical Jonrnal for 1799. A monograph „f
S r i t o witocotou“ d fi«nreS, that might represent them ail at one view, is still a desideratum ;.» n d ,s the more
so? S , beside their interesfand their being of unfrequent occurrence, a great portion of their beauty is of necessity
lost in drying. . . . I [hi resDect j, the species before us, which, if carefully expanded and dried
retains' th Aprincipal pPart of its characteristic: — ncc td the insect from
w S f . d e rh e s itsLm e This
Spider Orchis, 'jkh whic e 0 . ■ < ƒ ^ din„?0 the’ Botanist's Guide, cannot possibly be of rare occursale.
In that neighbourhood it aoounos an , s h* H fe je r ,han hvenlJ,.five counties of England and
Uimc countries furnmhe^ m ^ t l ^ ^ u r ^ ^ n d ^ i n tnir^count^i^it'h^ notolily "found ii pha?1?'! Englilh |
h o u T S r i p t i o n o f O . ° a L j L - Whether, however, in consequence of its bring taken from n cultivated spednw
»n nr from anv other cause, Mr. Andrews’s plate does not accoi din, colour with ours. . , „
W H S S m S M admit of cultivation in a garden if treated in the same manner as is d e t a i ^ n d e r O.m-
v ifJ a The late Mr Crowe, than whom few were more accurate observers in all that relates to Botany or Hoitmu?
tare,^?ommended particular care being takers jjj ^ ^ [B a ^ c h ^ u n s ^ n c e ’was nounTo?imion
I t S r e be called capricious. Mr. Id,by, who
Z in the harit of observing it at Kachan, in Norfolk, for many successive years, found ,t abundantly in some
, a t S I veiy sparingly, and often sought for it in vain. I t seldom ,f ever happened that it rose twice,,,
the same spot. ™thered bv Mr Graves, on Box Hill, Surry, where it is to be foiniil in great
a b S S T a T ^ n t o chalky hilll rd u n d V tf o r d , K en t; a similar soil to which it usually affects, gene,ally