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IN the summer holiday of 1921, Mr. Mayland and I were astonished to find in the woods round Carrbridge, Inverness-shire, very sporadically but at two stations about a mile apart, specimens of the small orchid,Spiranthes autumnalis. We took some, and for two or three days their characteristic scent and spiral spikes interested our table in the hotel. I regret now that we did not preserve specimens: but I am pretty sure we were not mistaking the identity of the plant, as it was repeatedly the subject of remark, and I have known it since I was a boy.
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BOWER, F. Spiranthes Autumnalis . Nature 111, 185 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111185a0
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