GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis, J 5 



O. mas latifolia. Fuchs. Hist. 554./. 



O. major. Cord. Hist. 128. 2./. 



O. strateumatica minor. Ger. Em.2\ 6./. 



O. prima species Dodon quinta Matth. Dalech. Hist. 1550./. 



O. Oreades, trunco pallido, brachiis et cruribiis saturate rubes- 



centibus. Merr. Pi7i.S5. Bicheno as above. 

 Cynosorchis latifolia, hiante cucuUo^ major. Bauh. Pin. 80. Rudb. 



Elys. V, 2. 185./ 1 3 very bad. 

 C. latifolia, hiante cucuUo, minor. Bauh. Pin. 81. Rudb. Elys. 



i;. 2. 186./ 4. 

 C. militaris minor. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 1 88./ 3. 

 C. majoris secunda species. Lob. Ic. \75.f. 

 Satyrion mas. Trag. Hist. 778. f. 

 Testiculus quintus. Matth. Falgr. v. 2. 235./. 

 Stendelwurtz. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 103./ 

 Gray Orchis. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 68./ 9. 



On chalky hills. 



On hills by the Thames near Cawsham (Caversham) bridge a 

 mile from Reading, and on several hills, on the other side the 

 water, towards Wallingfordj first observed by Mr. Brown. 

 Merrett, Ray. At Streatley, between Reading and Wallingford, 

 also at Pentley Hangings, Stoken Church, where Dr. Williams 

 first found it. Mr. Bicheno. 



Perennial. May. 



Herb smaller in every part than the preceding. Leaves narrower, 

 rather more lanceolate and acute. Ft. of a more slender and 

 elongated form, especially their calyx-leaves, which end in 

 longish taper points, and are directed more upwards. Tliey are 

 at first sight distinguished by their silvery ash-colour, and the 

 total want of those dark ribs, or stains, which have given its name 

 to O.fusca. The lip moreover is considerably elongated in the 

 disk, and ends in two much less dilated, though variable, lobes, 

 reaching far beyond the small intermediate one, and of a crim- 

 son or purple hue, deeper than the petals. Wulfen has well 

 described this Orchis, in Jacquin's Collectanea, and the figure, 

 drawn I believe by him, in the Ic. Rar., wqW represents its dis- 

 tinguisliing characters, of which the tapering points and grey 

 hue of the calyx, and the more elongated lip, contracted in the 

 middle, are the most apparent. It has the same scent as the 

 last while drying. 



This is the Swedish O. militaris, intended by Linnaeus as the type of 

 that species, and appears not to be rare in various parts of 

 Europe. I have traced its several varieties, in the grass-plats 

 about Rome, so nearly to O.fusca on the one hand, and O. te- 

 phrosanilios on the other, see Tour on tht Continent, cd. 2. v. 2. 

 312, that I have been disposed to trust to my own observation, 

 rather than to tliose botanists, however skilful, who have never 

 studied them growing. 1 tliink the dificrence is most salisfac- 



