DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophrys. 31 



Gen. descr. Petals white, lip green. Woodward. — Spike If* 

 inch long, cylindrical. Leaves strap-spear-shaped. 



White Satyrion. Moist meadows in Wales, and about Mal- 

 ham, Yorkshire. R. Sjn. and Llanberys. Mr. Davies. — Dry 

 mountainous pastures in Argyleshire and the Hebrides. Lightf. 

 [In the same places as Orchis conopsea. Dr. Hope.] 



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P. June, July, 



S. Roots fibrous : leaves egg-shaped, growing from the re'pens 



root : flowers pointing one way. 



E. hot. tSjhJacf. austr. SGfr-FL dan. §V1-Lightf. 22, at 

 p. 520-Hall. 22. 3. Epipactis at ii./. 132-Gum. ii. 6\ 1 

 -Cam. hort. 35-Ger. em. 22J . \-Ger. 1J5. 4-Park. 1355. 

 $~J. B. ii. 770. 2. 



Root creeping. Leaves on leaf-stalks, with a network of 

 brown veins . Petals 3, downy, glued together. Lip spear- 

 shaped, or egg-oblong. In place of a spur a boat-shaped keel. 

 LirtN. — Stem a foot high, hairy, especially towards the top. 

 Leaves near the base of the stem, with 5 to 7 ribs. Leafstalks 

 broad, leafy. Flowers whitish, or straw-coloured, 15 to 2© f 

 from one side of the fruit-stalk turning round and looking to the 

 other. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, longer than the germen, of 

 the same colour with the flowers. Lip terminating behind in a 

 bulging boat-shaped nectary, which makes it belong more pro- 

 perly to the genus Serapias. Lightf. — It is from Dr. Smith, in 

 E. hot. wc learn that the roots are not bulbous, and that Mr, 

 Sowerby found two internal spear-shaped petals, like those of 

 Orchis ustulata. 



Creeping Satyrion. Old mossy woods, but very rare. 

 Lightf. — About Moy-hall, near Inverness, and other places in 



Scotland. [In a wood near Gordon Castle. Dr. Hope.] 



P. June— Aug. 





OPHRYS. Nectary slightly keeled underneath. 



(l) Bulbs branched. 

 O. Bulbs fibrous, bundled: stem sheathed, leafless: lip nidus a 7 vis. 



of the nectary cloven • 



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m~Trag. 785-Dod. 553. 'Z-Lob. ic. i. 195. l-C/us. i. 



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Whole plant brown. Stalk cloathed with sheathing leaf- 

 scales. Relhan.— Root fixed laterally to the stem ; fibres fleshy, 



