GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 21 



converging over the green, much narrower, petals. Lip twice 

 as long as the calyx, dependent, linear-oblong, ending in 2 

 sharp lobes, with a smaller central one ; its disk greenish yel- 

 low ; sides mostly brown ■ but the colour of the whole Jlower 

 is variable. Cells of the anther brown, rather distant^, with a 

 naked gland at the base of each to receive the pollen-masses, 

 consisting of large yellow granulations. 

 C, Bauhin and Rudbeck have noticed this Orchis twice. The Se- 

 rapias batrachites, Ger. Em. 224./. 8, Orchis batrachoides, Da- 

 lech. Hist. 15 GO. /, must be a distinct species. It is 0. herma- 

 phrodiiica, Bauh. Pin. 83. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 199./. G. The lat- 

 ter refers to O. melittias, Ger. Em. 213./, which surely cannot 

 be the same. Systematic writers have not adverted to these 

 synonyms, nor does any popular author appear to have met 

 with either of Gerarde's plants. 



*** Knobs of the root palmate. 

 12. O. latifoUa. Marsh Palmate Orchis. 



Knohs imperfectly palmate. Lip of the nectary convex, 



crenate, slightly three-cleft; spur conical. Bracteas 



longer than the flovv^ers. Stem hollow. 

 O. latifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 1334. Willd.v.4. 28. FLBr.924. Engl. 



£o«. u,33.^2308. Curt. Lond.fasc.b. t.^b. Hook. Scot. 2ol. 



Fl. Dan. t. 266. Wah lenb . Lapp. 215. 

 O. n. 1279. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 142. t. 32./. 2. 

 O. palmata pratensis latifolia, longis calcaribus. Bauh. Pin. 85. 



RaiiSyn.380. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 211./ 1. Vaill. Par. 152. ^.31. 

 / 1—5. 

 O. palmata palustris latifolia. Bauh. Pin. 86. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 



214. f. 12. 

 Palma Christi mas. Ger. Em. 220. f. 

 P. Christi erecta, flore incarnato. Besl. Hort. Eyst. cest. ord. 4. 



t. 5./ 3. 

 Palmata non maculata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 774. J. 

 P. sive Serapias palustris latifolia, flore albo subpurpurascente. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 2.775./ 

 Serapias palustris latifolia. Ger. Em. 222. f. Lob. Ic. 190./ 

 Satyrion latifolium. Sweert. Floril. t. 63. f. 7 . 

 Cynosorchis palustris platyphylla. Dalech. Hist. 1562,/ 

 S. Orchis palmata palustris tota rubra. Dill, in Baii Syn. 382. 



Bauh. Pin. 86 ? Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 216./ IG ? ^^ 

 Palmata floribus impense rubris. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777. f. 

 Cynosorchis Dracontias, foliis et floribus impens^ rubris. Lob. Ic. 



191./ 

 In marshes, and moist meadows, abundantly. 

 Perennial. May, .June. 



