20 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 



I suspect (3 to be scarcely a variety, and that Dillenius, in this, as 

 in many other instances, has introduced into his edition of the 

 Synopsis, under a new name, what existed there already. The 

 late Rev. Mr. Wood of Leeds thought he once found in Wales, 

 early in summer, the Orchis sambucina, which I have supposed 

 the O. pusilla alba odnrata S^c. of Ray might be. But we learn 

 from Jacquin that O. sambucina is scentless, the smell of Elder 

 belonging rather, as Mr. Davall noticed, to 0. pallens, whose 

 roots are globular. 



11. O. viridis. Frog Orchis. 



Knobs tapering, clustered, divided. Lip of the nectary li- 

 near, with three teeth ; the middle one smallest. Spur 

 very short, slightly cloven. 



O. viridis. Swartx Orcli. 19. Witld. v. 4. 33. Camp. ed. 4. 143. 



Wahlenb. Lapp. 2! 6. 

 O. n. 1269. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 136. t. 26./. 2. 

 O. palmata minor, flore luteo-viridi. Raii Sijn. 381. 

 O. palmata, floreviridi. Bauh. Pi7i.86. Prodr. 30. Rudb. Elys.v. 2. 



216./. 17. 

 O. palmata batrachites. Bauh. Pin, 86. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 213. f.\0. 



Vaill. Par. 153. t.3\.f.Q, 7, 8. 

 O. palmata, odore gravi, ligula bifariam divisa, flore viridi. Segu. 



Veron. v. 2. 133. t. 15./ 18. /. 16./ 18. 

 O. palmata, flore galericulato dilute viridi. Lees. Pruss. 182. t. 59. 

 Satyrium viride. Linn. Sp. PI. 1337. Fl. Br. 928. Engl. Bot. v. 2. 



^.94. Fl.Dan.t.77. Ehrh. Phytoph. 46. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc.4. 



14. 

 Habenaria viridis. Br. in Ait. H.Ketv.ed. 2, v. 5. 192. Hook.Lond. 



f. 130. Scot. 252. 

 Serapias batrachites altera. Ger. Em. 224. f. 

 S. batrachites vel myoides. Lob. Ic. 193./ 

 Palmatse cujusdam icon. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 776./. 



In moist pastures and meadows, especially on gravelly or stony 

 ground. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Knobs two or more, thick at their origin, but cloven and tapering 

 below, accompanied by several cylindrical radicles. Ehrhart, 

 among the fanciful Greek names in his Phytophylacium, calls 

 this plant therefore Diplorrhiza ; giving to the preceding the 

 appellation of Triplorrhiza, understanding it as above described. 

 The stem is commonly from 3 to 6 inches high, rarely taller, 

 leafy. Leaves ovate or elliptical, deep green ; the uppermost 

 lanceolate, and acute. Spike rather lax, Bracteas lanceolate, 

 erect, leafy; the lower ones rising much above the Jlowers, which 

 are for the most part green and inconspicuous, though twice the 

 sizeof the last. Cal. green, tipped or bordered with brown, closely 



