72 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



tioned, I went into the open wood, which be- 

 gins at the fhifting fands, and goes a good 

 way into the country. It was not furrounded 

 by a hedge, and I faw nobody in it except 

 an honeft wood-man. In a low place I 

 found a mod beautiful flower, which would be 

 an ornament even to a green-houfe : this was 

 Ophrys infeclifera adrachnites {labia trifido) : 

 the root is a bunch of oblong bulbs, whereof 

 thofe in the middle are longer than thofe on 

 the outiide : the flalk is of the length of a 

 fpan, green, and uncovered above the middle j 

 the leaves are green, thofe near the root are 

 ovato-lanceolated, and four or more in num- 

 ber ; the braftea are green, and are as long 

 as the flowers ; the flowers are about three in 

 number ; the three outward petals are oblong, 

 and the two inner ones fmall, like teeth ; the 

 under-lip is foftly lanated at top, dark-red, 

 with very fine fpots, and cut into three parts ; 

 the middlemofl lacima is the kaft, which 

 makes the whole Up look quadrangular-heart- 

 (haped; the antber'a are yellow, egg-lhaped, 

 and oblong. 



At laft I returned to the {hip ; and the next 

 Sunday, feventeen of the crew received the 

 Lord's-fupper before the fermon. 



March 



