460 GYNANDRIA. 



tied!, consisting of a moveable lid on the 

 top of the style, like Dendrobium, t.10 — 

 12 ; or ./Uflfe.9, Engl. Bot. t. 72. The 

 style of ^Wrchidetf has been called a 

 column, but I think that term now alto- 

 gether superfluous. It is really a style, 

 and the stigma is a moist shining space, 

 generally concave, and situated, for the 

 most part, in front of the style beneath the 

 anther. In Orchis bifolia, t. 22, and others, 

 it is just above the orifice of the spur. 

 Concerning the nectary of these plants there 

 has been much diversity of opinion. The 

 calcar, spur, in Orchis, and some other 

 genera, is acknowledged to be such, and 

 holds abundance of honey. This spur is 

 judged by Swartz, as well as Linnaeus, a 

 decisive generic mark of distinction, and it 

 commonly is so ; but some Indian species 

 brought by Dr. Buchanan prove it not to 

 be absolute, The remarkable and often 

 highly ornamented lip, considered by 

 Swartz as the only corolla, for he takes all 

 the other leaves of the flower for a calyx, 

 has, by Linnaeus and others, been thought, 

 either a part of the nectary, or, where no 



