DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchis. 27 



Flowers purple, flesh-coloured, or white. Spike somewhat co- 

 nical. Petals spear-shaped, the middlemost of the 3 upper and 

 outer with the 2 inner approaching. Lip, the middle lobe the 

 longest, narrow, somewhat pointed, marked with dots and lines 

 forming a regular figure, somewhat corresponding with the form 

 of the lip. Woodward. 



[In the same moist meadows with (1) between Battenhall 



Worcester. St.] 



nectary 



germeir: lip flat: petals on the back upright. 



E. hot. 632-FL dan. 933-Hall. 32. 1. at ii. p. l±2-Lonic. 

 i. 203. 2-2W. 240. 2-Lob. obs. 90.* 4 ; ic. i. 188. 2- 

 Ger. em. 220. 2-Park. 1357- ?~Trag. 7$1-Ger. 169. 2- 

 J. B. ii. 775. 2*-L*L obs. 91.* 1. ic. i. 18p. \~Ger. em. 

 222. \-H. ox. xii. 14. row 2. 5~F lowers only, Vaill. 31. 

 9 and 1 0. 



One of the bulbs floats in water, this nourishes the stem, the 

 other sinks and bears the bud for the next year. Qiem- 

 Leaves spotted. Floral-leaves not longer than the flowers. 

 Flowers sometimes white. Petals •, the 3 outer upright, the 2 

 inner approaching. Lip with 3 lobes, scolloped, the middle 

 segment quite entire, very narrow. Linn. — Leaves rather hoary, 

 with oblong, transverse, darkish spots. Spikes close, conical. 

 Flowers to 40, pale purple, with deeper lines. Floral-leaves 

 longer than the germens. Horn blunt, as long as the germen. 

 Relh. — Bulbs compressed; fingers much straddling. Stem 6 to 

 18 inches high, cylindrical below, angular above. Leaves un- 

 derneath silvery grey, with parallel green veins, above pale I 

 green, often partially covered with the same silvery skin ; spots j 

 reddish brown, numerous, mostly oval and transverse, sometimes I 

 irregular, the edges of the upper ones decurrent, whence the an- 

 gular appearance of the upper part of the stem in this and several 

 other species. Flowers sometimes nearly white, and without 

 spots, when the leaves also are pale, and without spots. Petals 

 spear-shaped, the 3 outer expanding, sometimes spotted. Lip 

 deeply cloven into 3, marked with purple spots and lines ; the 

 lateral segments angular, the middle one spear-shaped. Horn 

 bluntish, shorter than the germen. Differs from O. latifolia, in 

 the lowermost leaf being always very blunt, the lip being deeply 

 cloven into 3, and in its flowering later. Woodw. — Floral-leaves, 

 the lower longer than the flowers, the upper shorter. St. — The 

 O. masculay and morio, have frequently spotted leaves, and on 

 that account, from too much attention being given to the trivial 

 name of this species, have sometimes been mistaken for it. 



Female-handed Orchis. Spotted Orchis. Woods, rich mea- 



