32 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Ophiys. 



species. Pet. rather smaller, shorter, and broader, more co- 

 loured 5 downy on the inner surface. Lip essentially and ob- 

 viously different, much broader and more dilated, nearly twice 

 as long as the calyx ; its margin thin, expanded, and directed 

 forward, not reflexed j the terminal lobe likewise thin and flat, 

 pointing forward, more or less heart-shaped and notched, not 

 awl-shaped and reflexed. The disk moreover is of a duller brown, 

 the lines and spots less yellow, or vivid. There are variations 

 as to the lip being more oblong, or more or less deeply lobed, 

 but the terminal segment is constant ; nor can there be any 

 doubt of the present species being perfectly distinct. I have 

 often gathered and examined il in the grass-plats about Rome, 

 but never till now met with British specimens. Mr. G. E. Smith's 

 discovery is the more satisfactory, as he clearly determined its 

 specific dift'erences, without suspecting it to be a described plant. 

 This cannot, as he well remarks, be a mule of the apifera and 

 our aramfera, there being a distance of two months between 

 their periods of flowering. The latter should now be named 

 Early Spider Orchis. 

 The O. arachnites is observed to grow more in tufts, or clumps, 

 than the apifera, which is commonly scattered, or solitary, though 

 less so than O. muscifera. 



4. O; aranifera. Early Spider Orchis. 



Lip the length of the calyx, tumid, hairy, rounded, with 

 four shallow, reflexed, marginal lobes. Column acute, 

 incurved. Cells of the anther near together. Petals 

 linear, smooth. 



O. aranifera. Hucls. 392. H. Br. 939. Engl. Bot.v.] . t. 65. mild. 

 Sp.Pl. v.4.66. 



O. fucifera. Curt. Lond.fasc.6. t. 67. 



Orchis sive Testiculus sphegodes, hirsute flore. Rail Syn. 380. 

 Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 767, descr. not Jig. 



O. fucum referens, colore rubiginoso. Bauh. Pin. 83. Rudb. Elys. 

 v.2.200.f. 9, bad, copied from LobeV s and Gerarde's figure of the 

 last. Vaill. Par. 146. ^.31./. 15, 16, excellent. 



O. andrachnitis. Lob. Ic. 185./. Ger. Em. 216. f. 



O. serapias secundus minor. Dod. Pempt. 238. 



O. araneam referens. Bauh. Pi«. 84. Rudb. Elys. r. 2. 203./. 17, 

 bad, copied from Lobel. Tourn. Inst. 434. t. 247. fC, C. 



Testiculus vulpinus secundus. Lob. Obs, 88./. 



In dry chalky, limestone, or gravelly pastures and pits. 



In Cambridgeshire. Ray. Yorkshire, near Tadcaster. Richardson. 

 Kent. Dillenius. Near Bury. Sir T. G. Cullum. In stone quar- 

 ries, Oxfordshire. Sibthorp. 



Perennial. April. 



Of more humble growth than the last, with (ewer flowers ; the 

 herbage rather more glaucous. Cal. bluntish, uniformly green. 



