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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, Vol. 8: To Which Will Be Added, Occasional Remarks
Fresh specimens of this rare plant were sent us in June last from Hafod, Cardiganshire, by Miss Johnes. It grows copiously on the elevated exposed grassy hills which surround that romantic place, as well as in similar situations in Scotland; nor have we ever observed it in moist meadows, as Hudson (after Dr. Richardson in Ray's Synopsis) mentions. Hence I have been led to suspect the propriety of this synonym, and whether the preceding Orchis, n. 93. Which remains unnoticed by late authors, may not rather belong to the plant before us. It must he confessed, indeed, that the epithet odomta scarcely agrees with Satyrium albidum, but neither does thyrso specioso. I have had some idea of this n. 23. Being the Orchis sambucina, which the Rev. Mr. Wood of Leeds thinks he once found near Snowdon.
The root of S. Albidum is thus explained by Mr. Sowerby from the consideration of several specimens: aacentral fibre 6 one a little above it cc 3 pair of fibres, one on each side d d a pair of old bulbs, the origin of the present plant e e a pair of bulbs for next season ffa youn er pair.
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