GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Malaxis. 49 



72 J but this error is corrected in FL Br. Mr. Hudson had no 

 practical knowledge of these two plants when he published his 

 first edition ; neither had Dillenius at any time. 



2. M. Loeselii. Two-leaved Bog-orchis. 



Leaves two, elliptic-lanceolate. Stalk triangular. Petals 

 linear. Lip obovate, channelled, undivided, recurved, 

 longer than the calyx. 



M. Loeselii. Sw. Orch. 7 1 . WiUd. Sp. PL v. 4. 92, Sm. in Rees's 



Cycl.nAS. Comp. ed. 4. \45. 

 Cymbidium Loeselii. Sw.in Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6.76. 

 Ophrys Loeselii. Linn. Sp. PL 1341 . FL Suec. ed. 2. 3 1 6. FL Br. 



935. E)igL Bot. v.\.t.47. Relh. 348. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 9.11. 



Ehrh. Herb. 1 J 0. 

 O. lilifolia. Huds. 389. 

 O. paludosa. FL Dan. t.877. 

 Ophris diphyllos bulbosa. Lees. Pruss. 180. t. 58. 

 O. bifolia bulbosa. Ger. Em. 403./. Bauh. Pin. 87. 

 Chamseorchis lilifolia. Bauh. Pin.84. 

 Bifolium bulbosum. Dod. Pempt. 242. f. 

 Pseudo-orchis bifolia palustris. Raii Syn. 382. 

 Orchis lilifolius minor sabuletorum Zelandise et Bataviae. Bauh. 



Hist. V. 2. 770. f.\,2; not 3. Lob. Advers. 506. f. 1, 2. Raii 



Cant. 105. 



On sandy bogs, among Rushes. 



On Hinton and Teversham moors near Cambridge. Ray, Relhan. 

 St. Faith's Newton bogs, near Norwich. Mr. Pitchford. Roydon 

 fen, Norfolk, near Diss. Mr. Woodward. Bogs near Tudenham, 

 Suffolk. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. 



Perennial. July. 



Three or four times as large as the preceding, especially the leaves 

 which are almost universally two, of equal size, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, entirely smooth, bright green, with one central rib and 

 many small ones ; their bases elongated and sheathing. Bulb 

 ovate, greenish, enveloped in soft pale scales, increasing by one 

 or more lateral offsets from the base, and sending down, from 

 the same part, many simple, wavy radicles. Stalk from between 

 the leaves, and about twice their height, triangular, smooth, 

 naked. Cluster of from 3 or 4 to 8 Jlowers much larger than 

 those of M. paludosa, but with smaller bracteas. Calyx-leaves 

 spreading, lanceolate, bluntish, of a pale lemon-colour. Pet. 

 longer and narrower, linear, likewise spreading, and of nearly 

 the same hue. Lip of a deeper yellow, rather longer than the 

 petals, obovate, folded, or channelled, wavy, or slightly crenate, 

 Germen obovate. Caps, elliptic-obovate, with 6 ribs. 



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