GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Ophrys. 31 



the form and hairiness of the nectary. Calijx-leavcs widely 

 spreading, ovate, concave, of a pink or rose-colour, often partly 

 white, with a green keel. Pet. much smaller, oblong, bluntish, 

 convex, spreading, greenish, hairy on the inner surface. Lip 

 large, prominent, tumid, or inflated, scarcely longer than the 

 calyx ; its disk smooth and polished, dark brown, variously 

 marked with yellowish, angular or curved, lines and spots ; the 

 margin in five shallow reflexed lobes, of which the two upper- 

 most are prominent, and very hairy, above, like the thighs of a 

 bee 3 the two next dilated, thin and rounded ; the terminal one 

 elongated, awlshaped, acute, somewhat recurved at the point. 

 Column green, vaulted, with a sharp incurved point above the 

 anther, whose two linear cells are considerably distant from 

 each other, above the stigma. Masses of pollen yellow, with 

 long taper stalks. Caps, large, with thick prominent ribs. 



3. O. aran'ifera. Spider Orchis. 



Lip the length of the calyx, tumid, hairy, rounded, with 

 four shallow, reflexed, maro-inal lobes. Column acute, 

 incurved. Cells of the anther near together. Petals 

 linear, smooth. 



O. aranifera. Huds. 392. Fl. Br. 939. Engl. Bot. v. 1.1.65. mild. 



Sp.Pl.v.4.66. 

 O. fucifera. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 67. 

 Orchis sive Testiculus sphegodes, hirsute flore. Rail Syn. 380. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 767, descr. not Jig. 

 O. fucum referens, colore rubiginoso. Bauh. Pin. 83. Rudb. Elys. 



V. 2.200./. 9, bad, copied from LoheVs amlGerarde's Jigure of the 



last. Vaill. Par. 146. t.'S\.f. 15, 1 6, excellent. 

 O. andrachnitis. Lob. Ic. 185./. Ger. Em.2\6.f. 

 O. serapias secundus minor. Dod. Pempt. 238. 

 O. araneam referens. Bauh. Pin. 84. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 203./. 1 7, 



bad, copied from LobeU Tourn. Inst. 434. t. 247. f C, C. 

 Testiculus vulpinus secundus. Lob. Obs. 88. f 



In dry chalky, limestone, or gravelly pastures and pits. 



In Cambridgeshire. Ray. Yorkshire, near Tadcuster. Richardson. 

 Kent. Dillenius. Near Bury. Sir T. G.Cullum. In stone quar- 

 ries, Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. 



Perennial. Jpril. 



Of more humble growth than the htst, with (cwcr flowers ; the 

 herbage rather more glaucous. Cal. bluntish, uniformly green. 

 Pet. also green, but smooth, and rather paler. Lip rounded 

 like the last, but less inflated, and entirely destitute of a (iftli or 

 terminal I{)l)e ; its whole surface of nearly a uniform dark brown, 

 and hairy, except two parallel, livid, shining, smootli, uneven 

 lines, connected by a cross l)ar, on the disk : the margin pale, 

 smoothish, in four very shallow, reflexed, rounded lobes. Co- 



