GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 23 



P. Christi foemina. Ger, Em. 220. f. 



Satyrium basilicum foemina. Docl.Pempt.2A0.f. Fuchs. Ilist.7\Z.f. 



S. basilicum mas alterum. Fuchs. Ic. 410./. 



In meadows, pastures and woods, very common j sometimes on 

 dry, barren, or heathy, ground. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Roots distinctly palmate, with several long, spreading, slender 

 lobes, resembling the true radicles. Stem nearly or quite solid, 

 leafy. Leaves lanceolate, keeled, all copiously stained with 

 blackish spots. *SpiA:e short, dense, conical. Brac/cas scarcely 

 so long as the germen, green, or but slightly puq)lish. Ft. va- 

 riable in size, pale purple, or white, variously besprinkled with 

 dark purple, or violet, streaks and dots. Cal. spreading, as 

 much coloured as the corolla. Lip flat, with 2 large, rounded, 

 crenate side-lobes, and a sharp intermediate point. Spur scarcely 

 shorter than the germen, more slender and cylindrical than the 

 last. Anther purplish, with green pollen. 



14. O. conopsea. Aromatic Palmate Orchis. 



Knohs palmate. Lip of the nectary in three entire equal 

 lobes ; spur very slender, twice as long as the germen. 

 Calyx w^idely spreading. 



O. conopsea. Linn. Sp. PL 1335. Willd. v. 4. 32. Ft. Br. 926. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1. ^. 10. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 4. 13. Forst. Tonbr. 



100. Fl.Dan.t. 224. Wahlenb. Lapp.2\b. 

 O. n. 1287. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 147. L 21)./. 2. 

 O. palmata minor, calcaribusoblongis. Bauh. Pin. 85. Rudb.Ebjs. 



v.2.2\2.f.b. Vaill.Par. 153. ^.30./8. Segu.Veron.suppl.2j\. 



t.3.f.7. 

 O. palmata angustifolia minor. Bauh. Pin. 85. Rudb. Ehjs. v. 2. 



212./ G. 

 O. palmata montana maxima. Bauh. Pin. 86. Prodr.3\.f. Rudb. 



Elys.v.2.2\6.f. IS. 

 O. palmata pratensis angustifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 85. Prodr. 30. 



/• J- 

 O. palmata carvophvUata. Bauh. Pin. 8G. Rudb. Ehjs. v. 2. 213. 



/ 8. 

 O. palmata angustifolia minor odoratissima. Rudb. Elys. r. 2. 213. 



/ 7 ; but not that of l^auhin, which is O. odoratissima Linn. 

 O. foimina. Trag.Hist. 780./, not the description. 

 O. serapias caryoj)hyllata. Lob. Ic. 194./ 

 Orchis. Tillands L . (i7./ 

 Pidmata ruln-lla, cum longis calcaribus rubcllis. Pxiuh. Hist. v. 2. 



778./ Rail Syn.38\. 

 P. caryophyllata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777 .f. 

 Palma ChriRti major. Matth.l'algr. v. 2.237./. Camer. Epit.02C).f. 



