subsp.ericetorum,the common one there of wet, heathy ground and bogs.
The majority of those recording the use as a love-charm, however, have
attributed it just to ‘orchids’ generically.
Notes
Pondweeds, Grasses, Lilies and Orchids 335- Friend 1882
- Ó Súilleabháin, 314
- Moore MS
4.Phytologist,1 (1843), 583 - Williams MS (Welsh Folk Museum
tape no. 6571B) - McNeill
- Anne E. Williams, in litt.
- IFC S 483: 329, 369
- Pratt 1850–7; Johnson 1862
- Chamberlain 1882
- Collyns
- Tongue
- IFC S 897: 235
- Cameron
- IFC S 226: 22
- Maloney
- Wilde, 28
- Parman
- Barbour
- IFC S 812: 440
- IFC S 655: 150, 267
- IFC S 737: 107
- Logan, 76
- Baker, 57
- McClafferty
- Ó hEithir
- IFC S 251: 173
- IFC S 654: 89
- IFC S 512: 523; 572: 70
- IFC S 476: 91
- de Crespigny & Hutchinson, 106
- IFC S 484: 42
33.Scottish Naturalist,1 (1871), 54 - Robinson 1876, 202
- IFC S 932: 32
36.Folk-lore Record,4 (1881), 96–125 - IFC S 931: 26
- Cameron
- Hart 1898
- IFC S 636: 133
- Hatfield, 41
- Purdon
- Maloney
- IFC S 850: 113
- IFC S 654: 242; 655: 175
- Martin, 93
- Ó Súilleabháin, 314
- Stewart, 110
- Tait
50.PLNN,no. 36 (1994), 172 - Newman & Wilson
- Taylor MS (Hatfield, 42)
- IFC S 550: 283
- IFC S 907: 267
- Harris
- Maloney
- Palmer 1994, 122
58.PLNN,no. 9 (1989), 40 - Gerard, 758
- Pratt 1850–7
- Gibbs, 57
- Porter 1974, 46
63.PLNN,no. 46 (1996), 223 - Read, 305
- Harland
- A. Allen, 185
- Wright, 247
- Purdon
- A. Allen, 185
- Maloney
- IFC S 931: 304
- Henderson & Dickson, 33
- Wright, 238
- IFC S 170: 47, 205, 257
- Taylor MS (Hatfield, 30)