276 OPHRYDE AX. 
Gymnadenia ornithis. Richard, Annot. Richb, Fl. Exc. Mayrhofer, Dissert. p. 28. 
B. densiflora ; spicà przelongà cylindraceà, lobo intermedio labelli cuneati 
minore. 
Orchis densiflora. Wahlenb. Fet. dct. Holm. 1806, p. 68. 
Satyrium conopseum, (9. Wahl. Fl. Suec. 558, 
Hab. in pascuis Europe et Asie temperate. 3. in locis fertilissimis in- 
sularum Gotlandie et Oelandie copiose. (v. a. v. sp. ; t. D. s. sp. in herb. 
Lehmann.) 
Calcar germine sepe duplo longius, sed interdum ex. gr. in paludibus Lap- 
poniz eodem revera brevius, ut in ejus longitudine vix differentia speciel, 
multo minus character generis. Wahl. 
I have no hesitation in considering the O. ornithis of Jacquin a mere 
white-flowered variety; it appears from Mayrhofer that it has never been 
seen since three specimens were gathered in 1774 on Mount Schneeberg ; 
and it is evident that its real distinction from G. conopsea consists in Its 
supposed oval and undivided tubers ; but it is more probable that the figure 
in the Flora Austriaca is inaccurate in this respect, than that the species 
should, if it really exists, have never been rediscovered for more than half 
a century. 
2. GxMNADENIA humilis. 
G. foliis lineari-oblongis acutis, spicà laxà pauciflorà, sepalis petalisque 
ovatis obtusis, labello subrotundo trilobo sepalis equali: lobis rotundatis 
medio emarginato, calcare subulato ovario elongato vix æquali, bracteis 
lineari-subulatis ovario brevioribus, tuberculis indivisis. 
Orchis Nicodemi. Z'enore, Fl. Neap. Prodr. p.53. Fl. Neap. 2, p. 290, t. 90. Sylloge, 
p. 453. 
Orchis Hostii. Tratt. ex Rchb. Fl. Exc. 123, 
Hab. in pascuis siccis Apulie, Tenore; Dalmatia, Rchb. (exam. $. P- in 
Hb. Lehm.) 
Sic vidi in exemplare a capite Malessa in herb. Lehm. Planta humilis e 
et gracilis facie G. conopsee depauperate. Calcar quod sec. cel. J eer 
horizontale est, et cel. Reichb. ovario longius, invenio subulatum a¢ 
pendens ovario longissimo brevius. An planta Reichenbachiana omnino 
eadem. Descriptiouem laudati auctoris subjungo. 
* Habitus O. mascule sed humilior; folia breviora, superiora arct* 2 
nantia, spicá laxà, flores minores teneriores purpurei sepalis obtusis, 
labio breviore, calcare ovarioque longissimo gracili distinctissim 
Rchb. 
It is impossible to reconcile the two foregoing accounts of this ins 
: But I suspect that Anacamptis 4-punctata is sometimes called Orchis I val 
demi; at least, a specimen of it so labelled is in Smith's Herbarium; ? 
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if so, it is not improbable that the plant which Rchb. had in view * 
Anacamptis A-punctata. 
3. GYMNADENIA comigena. Rchb. Fl. Exc. 121. 
* . H e s 1 i " e 
o < labio trilobo calyce breviore lobis lateralibus divaricatis, calcar 
ovarium zquante," Rchb. 
Hab. in Thuringia, Rchb. 
Eis : : r nde 
“ Habitus G. conopsee sed robustior et flores ex omni parte breviores, V 
