GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Herminium. 27 



1 . H. monorchts. Green Musk orchis. 



Radical leaves two, lanceolate. Br. 



H. monorchis. Br. as above, 191. Comp. ed. 4. \ 43. Honk. Lond. 



t. 138. 

 Ophrvs moriovchis. Unn. Sp. PI. \342. mild. v. 4. 6]. Fl. Br. 



936. Engl.Bot.v.\.t.7\. Dicks. H. Sicc.fr(sc.\0. 13. Fl. Dati. 



t. 102. Ehrh. Phijtoph. 27. 

 Orchis n. 15. Gmel. Sib. v. ] . \B. t. 4.f. 1 . 

 O. n. 1262. Hall. HisLv.2. 132. t. 22./. 2. 

 O. odorata moschata, sive Monorchis. Bauh. Pin. 84, liaii Sijn. 



378. Rudb. Elys.v. 2.207 .f. 1. Rupp. Jen. ed. 1. 282./. 

 O. pavva autumnalis lutea. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 7G8./. 

 O. coleo unico, sen Monorchis flosculis pallide viridibus. Lees. 



Pruss. 184. i. 61. 

 O. trifolia, floribus spicatislierbaceis. Segu. Veron. v.2.\3\. t.\ 6. 



/• 15. 

 Monorchis montana minima ttore obsolete vix conspicuo. Mich. 



Gen. 30. t. 26. f. E, F. Segu. Veron. suppl. 251. t. 8./. 8. 

 M. bifolia, floribus viridibus, moschu molentibus. M entz. Pugill. 



t. o.f. 3. 

 M. foliis angustis, fl. luteis ceram olentibus. Ibid.f. 4. 

 Serapias et Triorchis yEginetse. Lob. Ic. 187./. 

 Testiculus odoratus. Ger. Em. 218./. 

 Triorchis lutea Gemmae. Dalech. Hist. 1561./. 

 On chalky banks and hillocks, but not very common. 



In the great chalk-pit at Marham, Norfolk, 1779. Found also in 

 Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Suftblk, Essex, Kent and Surrey, 

 but not in the north. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root of several thick woolly /6res, and one globular hairy knob, 

 the size of a large pea, which is the source of the plant of the 

 present year. One of these apparent fibres, rarely more, bears 

 at its extremity a small young knob, destined to enlarge after- 

 wards, and to flower in the following summer. Herb smooth, of 

 a light bright green. Stem 4 or 5 inches high. Leaves two, 

 rarely three, sheathing, alternate, at, or near, the bottom of the 

 stem, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, obscurely ribbed, concave ; the 

 third, if present, often elevated towards the middle of the stem ; 

 and there is occasionally a small, membranous, lanceolate, 

 taper-pointed bractea higher up, similar to those under each 

 flower. .Spifee dense, U or 2 inches long. Fl. small, numerous, 

 smelling like musk and honey, especially in an evening. Cal. 

 green, leafy, concave, spreading equally in three directions. 

 Pet. of a totally different substance, thick, yellowish, longer 

 than the calyx, spreading between its leaves ; ovate at the base, 

 with a more or less prominent angle, or lobe, at each side, and 

 suddenly tapering into an elongated point. Lip of the exact 



