DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchid 25 



Dnvarf Orchis. Dryish meadows and pastures* Gogmagog 

 Hills, Newmarket Heath, and Barneck Heath, near Stamford, 

 Woodward. — On Wick Clifts, and on the Wiltshire Downs. 

 Mr. Swayne. — On Salisbury Plain, particularly up^»n the Bar- 

 rows about Stonehenge.] P. May, June. 





O. Lip of the nectary 5 -cleft; rough with dots: horn milita'ris. 



blunt : petals confluent. 



Flowers in a spike, purplish or ash-coloured. Petals growing 

 together. Lip 3-cleft ; middle segment longest ; rough with 

 dots. Spur short, bluntish. Linn. — But half the length of the 

 germen. 



Var. 2. Fusca. Lip 3-cleft, middle segment very broad, 



pom 



7< 



379- 



Hall. 31, at u. p. UO~FIoivers only, Va'tll. 31, 27, 28- 

 Seguier, ii. 15. 2. 



With a greenish cast. Jacq. ic. O. moravica. — O. militaris 

 purpurea. Huds. ed. ii. — O. fusca. Curt. — From 8 to 12 

 inches high. Spike about 3 inches long. Leaves egg-spear- 

 shaped. Bloss. varying much in colour, of a pale rose red, with 

 sometimes a greyish cast on the lip, and of a deeper purplish hue 

 on the upper petals. 



Orchis fusca* J acq. — On dry chalky soils, near woods and ( 

 thickets. About Rochester, and near Northfleet, Kent. 



P. May, June. 



Var. 3. Lip 3-cleft, segments strap-shaped. 



Hall. 28. 1. at ii. /. 140-CoL ecphr. i. 320. 2-Ger.em. 

 20.5. 2-ParL 1344--/W4. 651-J. B. ii. 765-Trag. 77$ 

 -Flowers only % VailL 31. 25 and 26*. 



Man Orchis. Meadows and pastures in a chalky soil. Caws- 

 ham Hills by the Thames sides not far from Reading, Berkshire, 



and near the old chalk-pit by the paper-mill at Harefield. 



May 



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It does not appear to me that these can well be made distinct 

 species. The colours are confessedly variable, and in all the 

 lower lip may be described 3-cleft ; considering the middle seg- 

 ment as notched, with a projecting point in the notch ; or as :>- 

 cleft, when this little projecting point must be reckoned as one 

 of the segments. The upper petals in all are confluent, and the 

 lip dotted. The greater or lesser breadth of the middle segment 

 ot the nectary, is the principal difference. Dr. Smith remarks, 



that all the varieties smell like new hav. 



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