GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Malaxis. 47 



neath the anther m front, obsolete. Caps, elliptic-oblong, 

 with 3 or 6 ribs. Seeds numerous, minute, each with a 

 lax chaffy tunic. 

 Roots somewhat bulbous, with inferior radicles. Leaves 

 ovate, or lanceolate, mostly radical. Flo\£er-stalk cen- 

 tral, angular. FL clustered, small, greenish. 



1. M. paludosa. Least Bog-orchis. 



Leaves about four, spatulate ; rough at the tip. Stalk with 



five angles. Lip entire, concave, erect, acute, half the 



length of the calyx. 

 M. paludosa. Sw.in Stockh.Trans.for \7S^.\27.t.Q.f.2. Willd. 



Sp. PL V. 4. 91. FL Br. 940. EngL Bot. v.\.t. 72. Forst.Tonbr. 



101. Hook. Scot. 255. 

 Ophrvs paludosa. Linn. Sp. PL]34\. FL Suec. ed.2.3\6. Rose 



Elem. app. 450. t. 2./. 3. Huds. 3S9. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 7. 16. 



FL Dan. t. 1234. Ehrh. Phytoph. 16. 

 O. palustris. Huds. ed. 1 . 339. 



Ophris bifolia palustris nostras. Pluk. Phyt. t. 247./. 2. 

 O. bifolia minor palustris. Phik. Almag. 270. 

 Orchis minima bulbosa, D.Preston. Rad Hist.v. 3.5S7 . DHL 



in Rail Syn. 378. 

 Jiifolium palustre. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 243. ed. 3. 385. 



In spongy turfy bogs. 



Near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; also between Hatfield and St. 

 Albans, and 'in Romnev marsh. Ray. At Hurst hill, Ton- 

 bridge wells ; Dubois. DHL Not found there by Mr. F^orster. 

 On Felthorpe bogs, to the north of Norwich. Mr. Charles Bry- 

 ant. Near Potton, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. Durham. 

 Rev. Mr. Harriman. 



Perennialr July. 



Root bulbous, sheathed, increasing by oftsets, often stalked, and 

 throwing out radicles from the base. Herb the smallest of our 

 native Orchidea-, and probably of the whole tribe. Leaves 3 or 4, 

 ovate, or obovate, various in length, rather glaucous, almost 

 upright, obtuse, roughish about the extremity, often somewhat 

 fringed, so that this plant may ])erhai)s have given rise to the 

 rc])ort of a hairy-leaved Orchis, in Lob. Ic. 186. Ger. Em. 219, 

 and Banh. Pin. 84 5 somewhat caricatured in Rudb. Elys. v. 2, 

 207. f.2. Stalk from 2 to 4 inches high, angular, smooth, bear- 

 ing a dense cluster of very small, pale green, reversed Jloiversy 

 the ui)per leaf of the ra///x'being turned downward, the 2 others, 

 with the small entire lip, u])ward. Pet. reflexed. Caps, almost 

 gl()l)ular. Brarlcas lanceolate, small, membranous. 



I had once taken Plukenefs figure for M. Lastlii, see EngL Bot. 



