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ORCHIS longicornu. 
Long-spurred Orchis. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncnmes. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 909. 
Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens, Pollinis тама 8 
Jobulis angulatis elasticé coherentibus; basi абхе. Brown in Hort. Kew. 
, 2. 5. 188. 
ORCHIS. Cor. ringens. Labellum basi subtüs calcaratum. Glandula 
(1-2) pedicellorum poliinis incluse cucullo unico. Br. loc. cit. 
O. longicornu, labello trilobo crenulato, lobis obtusis, medio breviore, 
petalis obtusis conniventibus, cornu ascendente compresso spathulato 
germen subequante. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 19. 
Orchis longicornu. Poiret voy. en barb. 2.247. Lamarck encyc. 4. 591. 
Desfont. atl. 2. 317. 1. 246. 
Rad. didymo-tuberose. Fol. immaculata, radicalia, plurifaria, basi ima 
bricato-compacta, indè patentia, 5-6, 3-uncialia, 3 partes unciæ lata, lanceo- 
Tata, micaceo-pruinosa, medio canaliculata, distantiàs lineata; caulina 
4-5, vaginantia. Caulis scapiformis bis altior foliis, superné purpurascens, 
Flores lazi, patentes, 10 v. plures, violaceo-purpurei, cum germine simul sub- 
unciales, odore grato amaricante fragrantes, resupinato-ezplicantes. Bractes 
vaginantes, coloratez, lanceolata, breviores germine. Petala ordine duplici; 
5 (ex resupinatione ) superiora galeato-conniventia, rosea, intüs pallentia, ob- 
"fusa, bis t breviora calcare; trium exteriorum lateralia obliguata, inagui- 
lateri-elliptica, nervis 5 viridantibus, carina eccentricá ; medium oblongum 
antrorsim fornicatum trinerve; interiora eatimis-accumbentia, angustiora, 
invicem approzimata. Labellum dimidio longius istis, oblatum, porrectum, 
disco pallescens punctis atropurpureis, 8-іобит lobis lateralibus obtcuro-colo- 
ratis externo margine denticulatis, intermedio admodiim minore sapiüs retuso s 
calcar 2 uncie longum, subeequule germini, assurgens, roseo-punicans, trans- 
„етед compressum, cuneato-elongalum, truncatum, erugatum, падне retu- 
sum. Germen fusco-purpureum, 3 partes uncia longum, pro fiore resupinando 
tortum, suprà posta Mass pollinis stipitato-clavate, indivisa, thecis 
2 marginalibus cuculli erecti incluse, stipites septo incompleto perpendiculars 
intergerino albo duplicato distincti : pollen virens, graveolens. 
A species very recently introduced by Mr. William 
` Swainson from the Botanic Garden at Palermo. Native of 
the coast of Barbary, and probably of Sicily. Found by 
Messrs. Poiret and Desfontaines in swamps near the sea. 
The latter has published an engraving of it in his celebrated 
Flora Atlantica, but from a dried specimen. 
It comes very close to our own common Meadow Orchis 
(Morio), but the leaves are more numerous, the flowers 
