GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 23 



P. Christi foemina. Ger. Em. 220. f. 



Satyrium basilicum fcEinina. Dod. Pempi. 240. f. Fiichs. Hist. 7\3.f. 



S. basilicum mas alterum. Fuchs. Ic. 410./. 



In meadows, pastures and woods, very common ; sometimes on 

 dry, barren, or heathy, ground. 



Perennial. June, .July. 



Roots distinctly palmate, with several long, spreading, slender 

 lobes, resembling the true radicles. Stem nearly or quite solid, 

 leafy. Leaves lanceolate, keeleil, all copiously stained with 

 blackish spots. Spike short, dense, conical. Bracteas scarcely 

 so long as the germen, green, or but slightly purplish. Fl. va- 

 riable in size, pale purple, or white, variously besprinkled with 

 dark purple, or violet, streaks and dots. Cat. spreading, as 

 much coloured as the corolla. Lip fiat, with 2 large, rounded, 

 crenate side-lobes, and a sharp intermediate p.oint. Spur 

 scarcely shorter than the germen, more slender and cylindrical 

 than the last. Anther purplish, with green pollen. 



14. O. conopsea. Aromatic Palmate Orchis. 



Knobs palmate. Lip of the nectary in three entire equal 

 lobes ; spur very slender, twice as long as the germen. 

 Calyx widely spreading. 



O. conopsea. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 335. mild. v. 4. 32. H. Br. 926. 



Efigl. Bot. v.l. t.\0. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc.4. 13. Forst. Tonhr. 



100. Fl. Dan. t. 224. Wahlenb. Lapp.2\b. 

 O. n. 1287. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 147. t. 20. f. 2. 

 O. palmata minor, calcaribus oblongis. Bauh.Pin.85. Rudb.Elys. 



V. 2. 212./. 5. Faill. Par. 153. t. 30./ 8. Segu. Feron. suppl. 



25\.t.S.f. 7. 

 O. palmata angustifolia minor. Bauh. Pin. 85. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 



212./ 6. 

 O. palmata montana maxima. Bauh. Pin. 86. Prodr.3\.f. Rudb. 



Elys. V. 2. 216. f. 18. 

 O. palmata pratensis angustifolia major. Bauh. Pin. 85. Prodr. 



30./ 1. 

 O. palmata caryophyllata. Bauh. Pin. 86. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 213. 



O. palmata angustifolia minor odoratissima. Rudb. Elys. v. 2.213. 



/ 7 } but not that of Bauhin, which is O. odoratissima Linn. 

 O. foemina. Trag. Hist. 780. f, not the description. 

 O. serapias caryophyllata. Lob. Ic. 194./. 

 Orchis. Tillands Ic. 67. f. 

 Palmata rubella, cum longis calcaribus rubellis. Bauh. Hist. v.2. 



778. f. RaiiSyn. 381. 

 P. caryophyllata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777./. 

 Palma Christi major. Matth. Valgr.v.2.237 .f. Camer. Epit.626.f. 



