GYNANDRIA— MONANDUIA. Ophrys. 31 



white, with a green keel. Pet. much smaller, oblong, bluntish, 

 convex, spreading, greenish, hairy on the inner surtace. Lip 

 large, prominent, tumid, or inflated, scarcely longer than the 

 calyx ; its disk smooth and polished, dark brown, variously 

 marked with yellowish, angular or curved, lines and spots ; the 

 margin in five shallow reflexed lobes, of which the two upper- 

 most are prominent, and very hairy, above, like the thighs of a 

 bee J the two next dilated, thin and rounded ; the terminal one 

 elongated, awl-shaped, acute, somewhat recurved at the point. 

 Column green, vaulted, with a sharp incurved point above the 

 anther, whose two linear cells are considerably distant from 

 each other, above the stigma. Masses of pollen yellow, with 

 long taper stalks. Caps, large, with thick prominent ribs. 



3. O. arachnites. Late Spider Orchis. 



Lip longer than the calyx, dilated, somewhat tumid, with 

 five shallow, inflexed, marginallobes ; the terminal one 

 flattened. Calyx coloured. Column with a hooked point. 

 Petals deltoid, downy. 



O. arachnites. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 67. Curt. Mag. t. 25 16, Roth. 

 Germ. v. 2. p. 2. 405. Hoffm. Germ. 318. Ho)it. Syn. 492. 



O. insectifera yj. Linn. Sp. PL 1343. 



Orchis arachnites. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 194. 



O, n. 12G6. Hull. Hist. v. 2. 134. t.24.f. \,fuciJlora.f. 1—3. 



O. araneam refcrens. Vaill. Par. t. 30. f. 10 — 13. Segu. Veron. 

 suppl. 244. t. 8./. 1. But not of Bauhin. 



O, melittias, Ger. Em. 213./.? 



O. serapias secunda Dodonsei. Besl. Hort. Eyst. <estiv. orcl. 4, t. 6. 

 f. 1 ; good. 



O, fucum referens major, foliolis superioribus candidis et purpura- 

 scentibus, Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 199,/. 7 ; rather than Ophrys apif era. 



Satyrion quartum. Britnf. Herb. v. 1. 105./. ? 



In chalky pastures. 



Plentiful on the southern acclivities of the chalky downs near 

 Folkstone, Kent. The conical hill which forms the north-west 

 boundary of the Cherry-garden, near that town, abounding in 

 its upper half with this species, and in the lower with O. apij'era. 

 Mr. Gerard E. Smith. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots and herbage, in general, like O. apifera, but the leaves arc, 

 according to Mr. Smith, usually narrower. In Swiss specimens 

 I find no difference. The essential distinctions exist in the 

 fiowers, and these are sufficiently well represented by Haller, 

 Seguier, and Vaillant, though Haller considers the two plants as 

 varieties only, fig. 4 and 5 of his fuciflora being our apifera. 

 The calyx-leaves are shorter in proportion to the lip than those 

 of the apifera, always paler, and rather white than pink, except 

 when the Jloiuers approach to decay j the keel green, as in that 



