GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Neottia. 35 



Pseudo-orchis. Bauh. Pin. 84. Riidb. Ehjs'.v. 2. 209./. 8. 



Palma Christi, mdice repente. Ger. Em. 227 .f. 



Pyrola acutifolia polyanthoSj radice geniculata. Lees. Pruss.210. 

 i.68. 



In mossy alpine woods in Scotland, but rare. 



In an old birch wood called Ca hue, or Yellow hill, about 2 miles 

 from the head of little Loch Broom, Ross-shire. Lightfoot. Op- 

 posite Moy hall, near Inverness. Dr. Hope. About Brodie 

 house, Moray. J. Brodie, Esq. Found by Mr. Murray in the 

 woods of Culloden, near Inverness, and about Gordon castle 

 and Scone. Hooker. 



Perennial. July. 



Root branched, knotty, or jointed, with downy radicles, creeping 

 extensively among moss and rotten leaves ; each shoot termi- 

 nating in a solitary tuft of 6 or 8 broad-stalked, ovate, bluntish, 

 smooth leaves, an inch long, somewhat speckled with brown, 

 marked with 5 ribs, connected by transverse veins. Flowering 

 stems solitary, from the centres of some of these tufts, hardly 

 a span high, round, smooth, bearing several scattered, erect, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, smooth bracteas. Spike spiral, downy, 

 with a downy tapering bractea to each flower, rising rather 

 above the downy gernien. Fl. small, spirally unilateral, about 

 10 to 15 in each spike, sweet-scented. Cal. externally downy, 

 white like the petals. Nect. white in the tumid part, with tawny 

 stripes ; the point white or pale red, lanceolate, keeled, projecting 

 nearly as far as the inflated base. Caps, light brown, sm.ooth. 



The tumid base of the nectary, being placed above, not behind, 

 the calyx, is not a spur, but a part of the lip, and justifies the 

 opinion of Lightfoot, that Linnseus ought rather to have refer- 

 red this plant to his genus Serapias. 



G. pubescens of Mr. Brown, a North American species, is twice as 

 tall, with larger, more strongly speckled leaves, 30 or AQ flowers 

 in a straight, not spiral, spike, and a very short, ascending point 

 to the nectary. But our G. repens grows also in the colder 

 parts of North America, and may have been mistaken for the 

 true pubescens, though obviously distinct. 



It is with great pleasure that I now adopt this genus of my 

 learned friend, from whom I always hesitate to differ in opinion ; 

 especially as the name he has chosen records one of the most 

 deserving of our early English botanists, Mr. John Goodyer of 

 Hampshire, commemorated by Johnson in his preface to the 

 second edition of Gerarde's Herbal, and whose very accurate 

 and intelligent communications enrich many parts of that 

 work 5 see particularly the chapter on Elms. 



416. NEOTTIA. Ladies' Traces. 



Jacq. Col. V.3. 1 73. Swarlz Orch. 49. fVilld. v. 4. 72. Br. in Ait. 

 H. Kew, ed. 2. v. 5. 198. Prodr.3\9. 

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