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OPHRYS fuciflora. 
Painted-lipped Ophrys. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®.  $ SERAPIADE. — (ORCHIDS, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 173.) 
OPHRYS.— L. 
O. fueiflora ; labello obovato-triangulari velutino indiviso basi bigibboso apice 
appendice rhombeo inflexo, petalis convolutis columnam brevirostrem 
subaeguantibus velutinis.— Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch. 376. 
. Arachnites, Eng. Bot. Supp. t. 2596. 
. Crabronifera, Sebast. & Mauri Rom. Pl. Cent. 13. t. 2. f. 1. 
. exaltata, T'enore Append. alt. 83. fide Rchb. 
. apiculata, Rich. Orch. Eur. 33. sec. descr. 
. estrifera, Rchb. fl. Excurs. 1. 128. nec Stev. 
. fuciflora, Hall. ic. Helv. t. 24. f. 2, 3. Rchb. ic. Eur. t. 868, 869. 
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These plants were drawn from specimens collected on the 
Continent by the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Manchester. 
Fig. 1. and 2. were found in the meadows of Zaule, near 
Trieste; 3. was from the neighbourhood of the Lake of 
Thun. 
In the confusion that exists among the curious little plants 
which constitute the genus Ophrys, we cannot pretend to trace 
the history of any one species to its antiqua fons. That is a 
special labour which we commend to those who have more 
leisure and patience. We can only sav, that all three of these 
plants are the same as O. fuciflora, which has been miscalled 
O. arachnites in English Botany. The true Arachnites, 
which is awkwardly, but not inexactly, figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 2516, has no hair on its lip. 
Our English Spider Orchis appears to be in reality much 
nearer O. fuciflora than was suspected, for instead of wanting 
the elevated processes which rise from the lip of that species, 
it equally produces them, as has been pointed out to us by 
the Dean of Manchester, and as is shewn in our fig. 4. taken 
from a plant gathered near Dover. But the processes are in 
