36 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Neottia. 



Cal. superior, of 3 concave, ovate or lanceolate, converging, 

 permanent, coloured leaves, equal in length ; the 2 lateral 

 ones meeting under the nectary. Pet. 2, oblong, erect, 

 converging under the upper calyx-leaf, and about the 

 same length. Ned. without a spur, as long as the calyx, 

 prominent, oblong, bluntish ; keeled underneath, espe- 

 cially at the base, within the calyx. Anth. roundish, pa- 

 rallel to the stigma, of 2 cells close together, depositing 

 the obovate masses of pollen upon the stigma. Germ. 

 obovate, with 3 furrows. Sti/le short, thick, cylindrical, 

 not winged. Stigma prominent, in front, globose, with 

 2 points. Caps, obovate, obtuse, with 3 furrows and 3 

 blunt angles. Seeds very minute. 



Root of several oblong vertical knobs. Leaves several, ra- 

 dical, ovate or lanceolate. Stalk sheathed wiih bracteas. 

 Spike many-flowered, generally unilateral and spiral. 



1. N. spiralis. Sweet Ladies' Traces. 



Leaves ovate, stalked. Spike twisted, unilateral. Bracteas 

 downy, tumid. Lip ovate, entire. 



N. spiralis. Sio. Orch. 5\, excluding the variety, Willd. Sp. PI. 

 vA. 73. Br. as above, 199. Coinp, ed. 4. 144. Forst. Tonhr. 101. 



Ophrys spiralis. Linn. Sp. PZ.1340. Fl. Br. 934. Engl. Bot. v. 8. 

 t.54\. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 59. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 10. 17. 

 Ehrh. Vhyt. Q6. Fl. Dan. t. 387. Davies Welsh Botanol. 83. 



Orchis spiralis alba odorata. Raii Syn. 378. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 

 769, descr. only. Vaill Par. 147. t. 30./. 17, 18. 



Triorchis. Ger. Em. 2 1 8. /, 



T. alba odorata minor j also major. Bauh. Pin. 84. Rudh. Elys. 

 v. 2. 209./. 7. 



Testiculus odoratus. Dalech.Hist. 155.5./ 



T. odoratus major et minor. Dod. Pempt. 239.// 



T. odoratus ; also Tetrorchis, vel Triorchis, alba spiralis, vel au- 

 tumnalis. Lob. Tc. \ 86. f,f. Obs.80.f,f. 



Satyrion odoriferum. Brunf. Herb.v. 1. 105./ 



In open pastures, on a chalky or gravelly soil, or in meadows, in 

 various parts of England ; not in Scotland. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Knobs of the root 2, 3, or more, ovate-oblong, brown, downy, 

 nearly perpendicular, successive, apparently besprinkled with 

 small capillary radicles, which if so are very remarkable. Leaves 

 several, all radical, on broad stalks, spreading, ovate, acute, 

 ribbed, rather glaucous. Stalk radical, a finger's length or more, 

 viscid and downy upwards, clothed with several sheathing, 

 upright, pointed bracteas. Spike spiral, of many, crowded, 

 small, white, highly fragrant ^o?:;er-s, in a single row, each with 

 ;in ovate, tumid, pointed, downy, close bractea. 



