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OPHRYS fusca. 
Dull-purple Ophrys. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat, ord. OrcHiDEZ. Tribus Ophrydeæ. 
OPHRYS. Supra, vol. 3. fol. 205. 
$. Sepala interiora glabra. 
O. fusea; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis suberectis obtusis : caulinis acutioribus, 
labello villoso trilobo; lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis deflexis; inter- 
medio retuso emarginato mutico; disci macula transversa flexuosa kevi- 
gata, sepalis interioribus obtusis glabris superiore dupld breviore. 
* Ophrys insectifera £. Sp. pl. 1343." 
** Orchis myodes fusca lusitanica. Breyn. cent. 41.” 
O. fusca. Link. in Schrad. diar. 1799. 2. 324. 
O. fusca; caule folioso, labello villoso trilobo, lobis lateralibus oblongis 
obtusis, medio oblongo emarginato, petalis patentibus lanceolatis obtusius- 
culis, binis interioribus param brevioribus. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 69. 
Folia glauca, subtrinervia, obtusa, caulinis angustioribus, acutioribus. 
Bracteæ oblonge, concave, floribus breviores. Sepala herbacea, exterioribus 
lateralibus ovato-oblongis, obtusis, labelli longitudine, supremo oblongo, forni- 
cato, breviore, lateralibus interioribus hoc duplò brevioribus, obtusis, glabris. 
Labellum oblongum, atro-purpureum, anticè hirsutum, postice glabrum, lobis 
lateralibus obtusis deflexis, intermedio longiore, emarginato ; disci macula 
transversa, cerulea, flexuosa, levigata. 
Roots of this plant were collected upon the rock of 
Gibraltar, by Colonel Chapman, and sent to William 
Atkinson, Esq., of Grove End, St. John’s Wood, in whose 
green-house our drawing was made in February last. It 
was cultivated in a pot, in common light garden mould, 
in which it grew luxuriantly. Most of the European Or- 
chidez, however cold the countries may be in which they 
grow naturally, seem in the garden to prefer as much 
protection from weather as is afforded by a good frame or 
cool green-house. 
