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middle one broad, bilobed, generally with an intermediate tooth. 
The middle segment varies in the depth of its fissures, so that 
many authors have described the lip as four-cleft, and others as 
five-cleft; but, when this is the case, the segments are never so 
regularly linear as in the following species, and they are notched 4 
and, besides, the petals are broader and not nearl y so acuminate. 
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Orcuis MILITARIS. Eng. Dot. t. 1873. 
Though this plant is figured by the old herbalists Gerard, John- 
son, and Parkinson, it does not appear to have been noticed as a 
distinct species by any English writer, until it was taken up by 
Sir J. E. Smith in the 27th volume of English Botany. In this 
work, however, it is confounded with another, the O. tephrosanthos 
of Swartz. The figure which Johnson gives of it, p. 216, no. 13. is a 
tolerable similitude, and leaves little doubt as to what he intended. 
Parkinson has copied it, p. 1344, »o. 8. and has added another of a 
most fanciful and ridiculous kind, p. 1347, which seems to have 
had its origin in this species or the following. Merett in his Pinaz 
tells us that Mr. Brown, one of the authors of the Catalogus Oz- 
oniensis, and whom he calls in his preface * vir exercitatissimus 
et eruditissimus," found three Orchides ** near the highway from 
Wallingford to Reading, on Barkshire side the river. 
“ 1. Orchis anthropophora autumnalis. CoL mas. C. B. et P. 
1347*. The Man Orchis. OE PEDES 
* 2. Orchis anthropophora oreades altera. Col. p. 318. 
** 3. Orchis oreades trunco pallido, brachiis et cruribus satu- 
rate rubescentibus.” 
The O. militaris, E. B. t. 1873 and O. tephrosanthos arc proba- 
bly intended by these descriptions, since the former is found at 
* This reference to Bauhine I do not understand thoroughly, but suppose it to rcfer to 
his Orchis flore nudi hominis effigiem representans, mas.— Pin. p. 82. iiu 
