Tall white bog orchid, bog candle, fragrant white bog orchid or scentbottle, Platanthera dilatata. Native of Canada, introduced by Scottish botanist John Goldie in 1823, raised at Monkwood Grove, Ayr. Tall greenflowered habenaria, Habernaria dilatata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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