GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 13 



O. parvis floribus, multis punclis notatis. Buuh. Hist. v. 2. 705./. 

 O. militaris pratensis humilior. Touru. Inst. 432. (^aill. Par. 149. 



«. 31./. 35,36. Segu. Feron.v.2. \23.t. 15./ 4. 

 O. muscse corpus referens maculosa. Lccs. Pruss. 183. t. 60. 

 Cynosorchis militaris pratensis humilior. Bauh. Pin. 81. Ruclh, 



Ehjs.v.2. 189./ 6. 

 C. minor pannonica. Ger. Em. 207./ 



On dry open chalky downs. 



Perennial. June. 



Much smaller than any of the foregoing, the stem being, with us, 

 rarely more than 3 or 4 inches high, scarcely leafy but in the 

 lower part. The plates of Haller and the Fl. Dan. represent it 

 about a foot in height. Leaves spreading, lanceolate, rather 

 glaucous, without spots. Spike oblong, dense, obtuse, of nu- 

 merous small Jiowers, whose dark converging calyx -leaves, and 

 blackish dots on the lip, give them a scorched or burnt aspect. 

 Bracteas small, ovate, acute, coloured. The spur is deflexed 

 incurved, blunt, scarcely above one third the length of the ger- 

 men. Lip roughish with minute points, purplish, with a white 

 disk, divided into 4 entire lobes, the 2 lower ones often having 

 a small intermediate point, like the following species, to which 

 this is more allied than to any of the preceding. 



Merrett, in his Pinax 89, mentions a white-flowered variety, found 

 near Chiswell, Berks. 



6. O.fusca. Great Brown-winged Orchis. 



Knobs of the root oval. Lip of the nectary five-lobed, di- 

 lated, rough. Spur obtuse, not half the length of the 

 germen. Calyx converging, blunt-pointed. Leaves ellip- 

 tic-oblong. 



O. fusca. Jacq. Austr. v. 4. 4. t. 307. Willd. v. 4. 23. Comp. 



ed. 4. 142. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 64. Bicheno Tr. of L. Soc. 



V. 12. 29. 

 O. n. 1276. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 140. t. 31. 

 O. purpurea. Huds.ed. 1.334. 



O. militaris. Engl. Bot. v.l.t.16. Fl. Dan. t. 1277. 

 O. militaris (5. Fl. Br. 923. /3 and y. Litin. Sp. PL 1334. 

 O. militaris major. Tourri. Inst. 432. t. 247. f.B. Faill. Par. 148. 



t. 31./ 27, 28. Segu, Veron.v.2. 122. t. 15./. 2. 

 O. moravica. Jacq. Coll. u. 1. 61. Ic. Rar. t. 182. 

 O. magna, latis foliis galea fusca vel nigricante. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 



759./ bad. Dill, in Rail Sijn. 378. t. 19./ 2. 

 O. strateumatica. Ger. Em. 215. f. Lob. Ic. 184./ 

 O. strateumatica major. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 758./ Dalech. Hist. 



1559./ 

 O. latifolia. Besl. Hort. Et/st. test. 4. i. 4./ 1. 

 O. latifolia altera. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 267./ 



