Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . distant at the base as theyare at the top (figs. 1G6,167); this is //. may perhaps find on a common another But-terfly Orchis, bearing a general resemblance toH. chlorantha, but altogether smaller; and if wcexamine a blossom of this, we shall observe thatthe anther-cells are parallel; this is the true //.bifolia (figs. 168, 169). II. chlorantha is usuallyabout a foot or a foot and a half high, with broadroot-leaves, and a lax spike ; II. bifolia is shorter,with narrowe
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . distant at the base as theyare at the top (figs. 1G6,167); this is //. may perhaps find on a common another But-terfly Orchis, bearing a general resemblance toH. chlorantha, but altogether smaller; and if wcexamine a blossom of this, we shall observe thatthe anther-cells are parallel; this is the true //.bifolia (figs. 168, 169). II. chlorantha is usuallyabout a foot or a foot and a half high, with broadroot-leaves, and a lax spike ; II. bifolia is shorter,with narrower leaves, and a slender, rather dense,spike of smaller flowers. The latter is only re-corded from one locality in Hertfordshire, and we know of but one place in Buckinghamshire whereit grows ; it appears to be unfrequent in Essex, andin Cambridgeshire is unknown ; II. chlorantha, onthe contrary, if not absolutely common, is at anyrate widely distributed throughout these a general rule, it may be supposed that most ofthe earlier references to //. bifolia should be trans-ferred to II. Fig. 172. Leaves of Water Plantain. Our last example is the Water Plantain (fig. 172).The common form of this, as far as our own observa-tion goes, has lanceolate leaves, gradually narrowedinto the footstalk («); and this, although usually re-corded as Alisma Plantago, is distinguished from thatspecies by the name of A. lanceolatum. Witheringfirst applied this latter name to a form not morethan an inch or two in height; but modernbotanists have extended its application. In thetrue A. Plantago, the leaves are shorter, broader (b),and suddenly contracted, or even heart-shaped atthe base.—Flora of Essex, p. 325. In the workquoted, Mr. Newbould gives several other distinc-tions between the two, and intimates that A. lan-ceolatum may be a good species. The two oftengrow together. The specimens which first arrestedour attention, and from which the accompanyingdrawings are taken
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