GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 11 



3. O. Morio. Green-winged Meadow Orchis. 



Knobs of the root oval. Lip of the nectary four-cleft, some- 

 what crenate ; spur obtuse, ascending. Calyx many- 

 ribbed, converging. 



O. Morio. Linn.Sp. PL 1333. Mant. 485. Willd. v. 4. 18. Fl. 

 Br. 920. Eugl. Bot. v. 29. t. 20.59. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. H. 59. 

 Hook. Scot. 250. FL Dan. t. 253 ; not good. 



O. n. 1282. HalL Hist. v. 2. 143. L 33 j the small figure. 



O. morio foemina. Bauh. Pin. S2. RaiiSijn.377. f'aill. Par. 149. 

 t.3]. f. 13, 14. Segu. Veron.v. 2. 125. t. 15./. 7. Rudb. Elys. 

 V.2. 193./. 4. 



O. minor purpurea, et aliorum colorum^cumalis virentibus. Bauh. 

 Hist. V. 2. 7G1./. 



Cynosorchis. Brwif. Herb.v. 1.104./. 



C. morio foemina. Lob. Ic. 1 76.f. Ger. Em. 208. f. 



Testiculus morionis foemina. Dod. Pempt. 236. f. 



Testiculi species quarta. Camer. Epit. 624. f. 



Triorchis scrapias mas. Fuchs. Hist. 559./ Dalech. Hist. 1554./. 



T. mas minor. Fuchs. Ic. 321./ 



In rather moist meadows and pastures^ among short grass, frequent. 



Perennial. Mat/, June. 



Knobs nearly globose, not pointed ; one of them often a little re- 

 moved from the other by a stalk. Stem clothed with leafy 

 sheaths. Leaves lanceolate, of a rather dull unspotted green^ 

 somewhat glaucous ; the under side paler and shining. Spike 

 rather lax. Bracteas lanceolate, membranous, partly purple, 

 the length of the germens. FL scentless, purple ; sometimes 

 pale, or flesh-coloured 3 sometimes varying to crimson, or to a 

 light violet j but the numerous green ribs of the calyx-leaves 

 are equally strong in all the varieties. These 3 leaves converge 

 over the column in a vaulted form, enclosing the petals. Spur 

 blunt, rather shorter than the germen, curved upwards. Lip in 

 4 unequal lobes ; the lateral ones largest, dcflcxed, mostly 

 notclied at the margins ; the disk ])ale, dotted with purple. 

 Cells of the anther close together. The masses of pollen, for- 

 merly taken for anthers, split each into two lobes. 



4. O. mascula. Early Purple Orchis. 



Knobs of the root oval. Lip of the nectary four-cleft-, cre- 

 nate ; spur obtuse. Calyx-leaves three-ribbed ; two la- 

 teral ones reflexed upwards. 



(). mascula. Linn. Sp. PL 1333. Willd. v. 4. 18, FL Br. f)2(). 



Engl. hot. V. 9. t.63\. Curl. Lond.fasc. 2. /. 62. Jl'ondv. t. 90. 



Dicks. //, Sice. /;/.sr. 11. 14. Hook. Scot. 250. Jaaj. Misc. v. 2. 



37:k Ir. liar. t. I 80. FL Dan. t. 457. 

 (). n. I2S3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. I I 1. t.?,:); (he larger figure. 



