48 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Malaxis, 



at the back; flat or concave in front. Stigma close be- 

 neath the anther in front, obsolete. Caps, elliptic-oblong, 

 with 3 or 6 ribs. Seeds numerous, minute, each with a 

 lax chaffy tunic. 

 Roots somewhat bulbous, with inferior radicles. Leaves 

 ovate, or lanceolate, mostl}^ radical. Flo'uoer-stalk cen- 

 tral, angular. Fl. clustered, small, greenish. 



1. M. paludosa. Least Bog-orchis. 



Leaves about four, spatulate ; rough at the tip. Stalk with 

 five angles. Lip entire, concave, erect, acute, half the 

 length of the calyx. 



M. paludosa. Sw. in Stockh. Trans.for 1789. 127. t. 6.f. 2. Willd. 

 Sp. PL t;. 4. 9 1 . Fl. Br. 940. Engl. Bot. v.l.t.72. Forst. Tonbr. 

 101. Hook. Scot. 255. 



Ophrvs paludosa. Linn. Sp. PL 1 34 1 . H. Suec. e(/. 2. 3 1 6. Rose 

 El'em. app. 450. t. 2./. 3. Huds. 389. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 7. 16. 

 FL Dan. t. 1234. Ekrii. Phytoph. 1 G. 



O. palustris. Hz<f/s. etZ. 1.339. 



Ophris bifolia palustris nostras. Pluk. Phjt. t. 247./. 2. 



O. bifolia minor palustris. Pluk. Jlmag. 270. 



Orchis minima bulbosa, D. Preston. Rail Hist. v. 3. 587. DHL 

 in Rail Syn.378. 



Bifolium palustre. Rati Syn. ed. 2. 243. erf. 3. 38.0. 



In spongy turfy bogs. 



Near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; also between Hatfield and St. 

 Albans, and in Romney marsh. Ray. At Hurst hill. Ton- 

 bridge wells ; Dubois. Dill. Not found there by Mr. Forster. 

 On Felthorpe bogs, to the north of Norwich. Mr. Charles Bry- 

 ant. Near Potton, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. Durham. 

 Rev. Mr. Harrbnan, 



Perennial. July. 



Root bulbous, sheathed, increasing by offsets, often stalked, and 

 throwing out radicles from the base. Herb the smallest of our 

 native OrchidecB, and probably of the whole tribe. Leaves 3 or 4, 

 ovate, or obovate, various in length, rather glaucous, almost 

 upright, obtuse, roughish about the extremity, often somewhat 

 fringed, so that this plant may perhaps have given rise to the 

 report of a hairy-leaved Orchis, in Lob. Ic. 186. Ger. Em. 219, 

 and Bauh. Pin. 84 ; somewhat caricatured in Rudb. Elys. v. 2, 

 207. f. 2. Stalk from 2 to 4 inches high, angular, smooth, bear- 

 ing a dense cluster of very small, pale green, reversed flowers, 

 the upper leaf of the calyx being turned downv/ard, the 2 others, 

 with the small entire lip, upward. Pet. reflexed. Caps, almost 

 globular. Bracteas lanceolate, small, membranous. 



I had once taken Plukenet's figure for M. Lceselii, see EngL Bot. 



