DIANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. Satyrium. 



Stem sheathed with scales. Flowers violet, • Linn. — Horn 

 conical, slightly curved, very much pointed. Mr. Woodward. 



Purple Bird's-nest. Bird's-nest Orchis* Dryish meadows. 



P May, June. 



This has been supposed to be the plant intended by Ray, 

 Limodorum austriacum, Syn. 583, but the figures to which he 

 refers have the lip of the nectary cloven, and I believe we have 

 no other place mentioned for the growth of the O. abortiva, than 

 that given from D. Goodyer in Ray's Synopsis ; so that it is yet 

 doubtful whether it really be a native of this country. 





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Near Alton, Hampsh. R. Syn. 





S ATY'RIUM. Nectary behind the flower ; inflated, 



roundish . 



S. Bulbs undivided: leaves spear-shaped: lip of the hirei'num. 



nectary 3-cleft ; the middle segment strap- shaped, 

 oblique; bitten oft*. 



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i^Ger. em. 'J 10, \-Park. 1848. \-Ger. l6C \~H. ox. 

 xii. 12. 9~Lob.obs. 90. i. ic. i. 177- l~Ger. em. 210. 2- 

 Park. 1348. 2-J. B. ii. 756-Ger. l60. 2-Flowers only, 

 Valll. 30. 6 y and Seguier, 15. 1. 



Plant tall. Flowers whitish, smelling like a goat. Lip, the 

 middlemost segment very long, the lateral ones very short, awl- 

 shaped, very entire. Linn. — The largest and tallest of our 

 Orchises. Ray. — Flowers greenish white, purple within. 



Lixard-Jlower, or Satyrion. Chalky meadows and pastures. 

 Several places in the neighbourhood of Dartford, Kent. Ray. 



P. June, July. 



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S. Bulbs hand-shaped : lower leaves oblong, blunt: lip vir'ide 



of the nectary strap-shaped^ 3-cleft; the middle 

 segment indistinct. 



Dicks, h. s.-E. bot. £)\~HalL 26. 2, at ii. /. 13J-FI. dan. 

 77-Ger. em. 224. S~Park. 135S. 9. 



Flowers pale, greenish. Petals approaching. Lip, the lateral 

 segments narrower, the middlemost smaller. Linn. — Stem 5 to 

 1 1 inches high, solid ; angles unequal, sharp, formed from the 

 edges of the leaves and floral-leaves. Spike spear-shaped, 1 to 3 

 inches long. Floral-leases awl-spear-shaped, keeled, somewhat 

 bowed in. Calyx, tube investing the germen ; border with 3 

 divisions ; segments egg-shaped, nearly equal, with sharp lon- 

 gitudinal wrinkles, approaching upwards, before flowering glued 

 together, and involving all the parts of fructification, except the 



