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OPHRYDES Grece. 
Grecian Ophryses. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. (Oncuips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
OPHRYS.—L. 
1. Ophrys tabanifera. 
O. tabanifera (Willd.).; labello bigibboso ovato acuto tripartito villoso : lobis 
lateralibus deflexis acutis intermedio ovato, petalis ciliatis acutis.— Lindl. 
Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 375. with its synonyms of O. picta, pulla, hiulca, 
estrifera, distoma, bombyliflora. 
2. Ophrys ferrum equinum. 
O. ferrum equinum (Desf.) ; labello oblongo subquadrato apicolato violaceo 
macula albá hippocrepicá in medio, sepalis roseis.— Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. 
Orch. p. 377. 
The two species of Ophrys here represented were collected 
by our lamented correspondent the Dean of Manchester, were 
figured a day before his death, and were to have been illus- 
trated by himself. 
His brief and imperfect memorandum tells us that 
O. tabanifera was found bv his collector Vrioni, near Cla- 
rentia, a low and swampy place, **whence the Dukes of 
Clarence took their title, 1t is said, why I know not" 0. 
ferrum equinum, so called because of a horse-shoe mark on 
the lip, is from Corfu, where it was gathered by himself on 
the summit of the Garouna Pass. 
In many respects these species resemble each other ; but 
tabanifera has a three-lobed lip, ferrum equinum an entire 
one ; in tabanifera the petals are reflexed, and pale greenish 
chocolate, in ferrum equinum patent, and rosy purple. Both 
