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81. OPHRYS Arachnites. 
The name Arachnites originates with Scopoli, who applied 
it to an Orchis, of which he made three varieties, two being in 
fact Orchis, and otherwise named. The third, to the appear- 
ance of which the name was adapted, was Ophrys Arachnites 
of Zaule, near Trieste; a plant before unnoticed, and not 
exactly similar to that of Switzerland and Kent, though it 
may be very proper to consider the latter as a variety of the 
true Arachnites, which has a very different aspect, and a 
shorter, rounder lip, and other distinctions. That which has 
been sometimes called Arachnites in Corfu is O. cornuta, 
distinguished by the prolongation of the shoulder of the lip 
into a long horn, but otherwise closely allied to Arachnites, 
which it resembles in its general appearance, though it grows 
taller, The bee orchis of England grows in Corfu, and is 
occasionally, though rarely, found with a yellow lip, and white 
segments to the flower, in which state it is the once-found 
Ophrys chlorantha of the Swiss Flora.—W. H. 
82. CYTINUS Hypocistis. 
This plant is figured in the Flora Græca, by a mistake, as 
if it were of a uniform dead-leaf, or pale straw-colour ; and, 
as the plant is not known in this country, the representation 
and description there given have passed for correct. The 
account of the genus in Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum, gives 
no insight into the colour of such plants. The reader will be 
surprised to hear, that the real colour of the flowers is pure 
` white, and of the rest of the plant intense scarlet. The plant 
grows from the underside of the roots of a Cistus, and I found 
it pretty abundant in May, towards the rocky summit of Santa 
Decca, 2,300 feet high, in Corfu. I first saw the plants, 
which, on account of their splendid colour, had been gathered 
by the Greeks, strewed about the street in the village, half 
way up the hill. The form of the Cytinus, when it breaks 
through the ground, is club-shaped, tapering downwards; it 
is three or four inches long, and about as thick upwards as a 
man’s thumb: it is clothed with close-set scarlet bractes, 
which after a while disclose the upper surface of a cluster of 
white fleshy flowers, which have some resemblance to short 
thick jasmine flowers. Several of these sprouts spring from 
