OPHRYDEX. 271 
36. Orcuts taurica. 
O. foliis oblongo-lanceolatis lax& vaginantibus in caulem ascendentibus, 
spica pyramidali, sepalis oblongis acutis, labello calcari rectiusculo sub- 
horizontali equali: laciniis integris lateralibus acutis apice incurvis 
intermedia cuneatà apice dilatatà tridentatà multà brevioribus, bracteis 
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis ovario longioribus. 
O. pyramidalis. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 2, 363. 
Hab. in Taurie et Caucasi nemorosis, Bieberstein (hab. s. sp. comm. cel. 
Prescott.) 
O. variegatz affinis, characteribus supra datis facile distinguenda. Flores 
purpurei sec. Bieberst. 
37. Orcuis militaris. Linn.! Sp. Pl. 1334. 
O. foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, spicà cylindraceà, sepalis acutis ob- 
tusisve, labello medio pubescente calcare pendulo incurvo v. rectiusculo 
duplo longiore: laciniis lateralibus linearibus intermedie cruribus di- 
vergentibus truncatis pluriveniis, bracteis brevissimis. 
a. vera ; sepalis obtusis, labelli lacinia intermedia lineari biloba: cruribus 
plus minus oblongis divaricatis. 
O. militaris. De Cand. Fl. Fr. 3, 248 (a.) Jacq. Ic. Rar. 4, t.598. Eng. Bot. t. 2675. 
Smith, Eng. Fl.4,14. Rchb. Pl. Crit. 8, 0.701. Fl. Excurs.125. Mayrhof. Dissert. 20. 
O. cinerea. Suter, sec. Rchb. b 
O. Rivini. Gouan, illustr. 74. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 2,t. 162. Hall. Helv. t. 27, sinistr. 
p. galeata ; sepalis acutissimis, labelli lacinià intermedià cuneatà biloba: 
cruribus brevibus truncatis. 
O. galeata. Lam. Dict. 4,593. De Cand. Fl. Fr. 3,249. Rchb. Fl. Excurs.125. Tenore, 
Sylloge. p. 454. 
O. mimusops. Thuillier, Fl. par. 1, p. 458, ex D. C. 
? O. militaris. Bieberst. Fl. Cauc. 2, 365. Sweet, Brit Fl. Gard. 2, 1.163. Hall. Helv. t. 28. 
Y. hybrida; labello tripartito punctato-scabro, laciniis remotis linearibus 
mucrone intermedio elongato reflexo, calcare recto, Bénningh. ex Rchb, 
Fl. Excurs. 195 (Orchis hybrida.) 
Hab. a. per omnem Europam mediam et temperatam; etiam in Grusia, 
Steven, montibus altaicis, Fischer; (9. in Germania Australi, Gallia, et Hel- > 
vetia, Rchb. D. C. Haller; y. in Thuringia et Bohemia, Rchb. (Aab. a. et 
D. s. sp. et v. a. sp.) 
Caulis pedalis et ultra. Folia lucida, immaculata. Spica densa, oblonga, 
floribus nunquam siccatione fuliginosis. Bractee purpurez. Flores 
lilacini, rosei, v. albi. Sepala sepiüs venosa. Labellum medio decolor, 
apicibus coloratis, punctis quibusdam hispidis cruentis conspersum, per 
axin pubescens; mucrone longitudine et forms vario inter crura 
interjecto. 
There can, I think, be little doubt that the synonyms above quoted are 
rightly referred to this plant; it seems to me quite impossible to depend 
upon minute differences in the structure of the lip for the discrimination 
of species, and it is only in such circumstances that it has been pretended 
to distinguish them. O. galeata approaches O. variegata in the form of its 
lip, but it wants the long bracts of the latter species, and has altogether 
the habit of O. militaris. Of O. hybrida I have met with no specimen ; and 
I should have suspected it to be rather a form of O. tephrosanthos, if 
Reichenbach had not compared it, on the one hand, with O. fusca, and on 
