GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 21 



converging over the green, much narrower^ petals. Lip twice as 

 long as the calyx, dependent, linear-oblong, ending in 2 sharp 

 lobes, with a smaller central one 5 its disk greenish yellow j 

 sides mostly brown ; but the colour of the vvhole^oM;er is va- 

 riable. Ceils of the anther brown, rather distant, with a naked 

 gland at the base of each to receive the pollen-masses, consist- 

 ing of large yellow granulations. 

 C. Bauhin and Rudbeck have noticed this Orchis twice. The Se- 

 rapias batrachites, Ger. Em. 224./. 8, Orchis batrachoides. Da- 

 lech, Hist. 15C0./, must be a distinct species. It is 0. herma- 

 phroditica,Bauh. Pin. S3. Rudb, Elys. v. 2. 199./. (J. The latter 

 refers to O. melittias, Ger, Em. 213./, which surely cannot be 

 the same. Systematic writers have not adverted to these syno- 

 nyms, nor does any popular author appear to have met with 

 either of Gerarde's plants. 



*** Knobs of the root palmate. 

 12. O. latifolia. Marsh Palmate Orchis. 



Knobs imperfectly palmate. Lip of the nectary convex, 

 crenate, slightly three-cleft ; spur conical. Bracteas 

 longer than the flow^ers. Stem hollow. 



O. latifolia. Linn. Sp. P/. 1334. Willd. v. 4. 28. Fl, Br. 924. Eyigl. 



Bot. r.33. t. 2308. Curt, Lond.fasc. 5. t. 65. Hook. Scot. 251. 



Fl. Dan. t. 266. Wahlenb. Lapp. 2\5. 

 O. n. 1279. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 142. t.2>2.f.2. 

 O. palmata pratensis latifolia, longis calcaribus. Bauh. Fin. 85. 



RaiiSyn.SHO. Rudb. Elys.v.2.2\\.f. \. Vaill. Par.\52. t.3\, 



O. palmata palustris latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 86. Rudb. Elys. r. 2. 2 1 4. 



/12. 

 Palma Christi mas. Ger. Em, 220. f. 

 P. Christi eiecta, flore incarnato. Besl, Hort.Eyst. cest. ord. 4. t. 5. 



Palmata non maculata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 77 \. J. 



P. sivc Serapias palustris latifolia, flore albo subpurpurascente. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 775. f. 

 Serapias palustris latifolia. Ger. Em. 222. f. Lob. Ic. 190./. 

 Satyrion latifolium. Swccrt. Floril. t. 63./ 7. 

 Cynosorchis })alustris platyphylla. Dalcch. Hist. 1562./ 

 /3. Orchis i)almata palustris tota rubra. Dill, in Rait Syn. 382. 



Bauh. Pin. 86 ? Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 2 1 6. /. 1 6 ' 

 Palmata floribus impcnst; rubris. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777. /■ 

 Cynosorchis Dracontias, foliis et floribus impcnsc: rubris. Lub. Ic 



191./. 

 In marshes, and moist meadows, abiuidanll). 

 Perennial. .May, June. 



