

DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophryi. 



Flowers white within. Petals, the outer glued together* 

 Lip roundish, finely scolloped, the teeth fringe-like. Lin*. 

 Bulbs 1 to 3, varying from oblong and half an inch to cylin- 

 drical, and one and a half inch long, rough, with a few fibres. 



-Stem 6 to 9 inches high, smooth below, downy above, from 

 the side of the root. Root-leaves in a tuft, oval-spear-shaped, 

 very entire, smooth, bright green ; stem-leaves 3 or 4, spear- 

 shaped, tapering to a point, embracing the stem. Spike 2 to 4« 

 inches long. floral-leaves longer than the germen, oval-spear- 

 shaped, tapering to a point. Floavers numerous, white. Petals^ 

 the 2 inner spear-shaped, expanding. Lip narrow at the base, 

 widening downwards, at the end roundish and serrated. Woodw. 

 Stem slightly wreathed. Spike-stalk wreathed, downy. Petals 

 5, spear-shaped, nearly equal, upright, approaching, greenish 

 white, smooth within, downy without, the 3 upper glued toge- 

 ther, and appearing as one, the middlemost the largest. Nectary 

 oblong-egg-shaped, at the base somewhat heart-shaped, and 

 marked with a blunt tooth on each side, nearly doubled to, and 

 involving the parts of fructification, slightly keeled underneath, 

 at the end bluntish and finely scolloped, somewhat fleshy, glossy, 

 glutinous, green, with a whitish edge, and towards the point 

 frosted. Stamen 1, placed on the upper side of the style. Fila- 

 ment none, except a short tooth projecting from the inner edge 

 of the style. Anther of 2 cells and 4 valves, egg-shaped, up- 

 right, growing to the inner edge of the posterior tooth of the 

 style. Style somewhat club-shaped, hooked, projecting from 

 the point of the germen, concave above where it receives the 

 mass of pollen, which sometimes remains in it even after the 

 flower is out of blossom ; margin upright, with 5 teeth beneath 

 obliquely lopped. Summit fiat, somewhat egg-shaped, green, 

 glutinous, cloven at the point. St. — The flowers as Linne says, 



o really point in one direction, from one line ; but this line 

 having a spiral twist, they appear to point indifferent directions. 



pastures 



Triple T<wayblade y or Ladies-traces. 



and moist meadows. Ray.- 



Dry sandy and chalky 

 [Dry barren clayey pas- 



— In a croft near 



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tures, and on a boggy common. Woodward. 

 Whitehall, on the road from Truro to Redruth, Cornwall. Mr, 

 Watt. — Under the rocks at Pinney Cliffs, near Lyme. Mr. 

 Knappb. — In good soil, on the sides of sunny banks in the 

 Limestone pastures about Newton Cartmel. Mr. Hall.] 



P. Aug. Oct. 



O. Bulb fibrous : stem with 2 leaves : leaves egg-shaped : ova ta 



lip of the nectary cloven. 



Hall. 37, 1. at ii. /. 150-Curt. 177-Gars. 425. 2-ZW. 

 242. 1-Lob. obs. 16'1. 3. fcf ic. i. 302. 2-Park. 504. 1- 

 Ftubs. 566-J. B. iii. 533. 2-Fh dan. n7~Matt&. 

 12?5-I*ff,V. i, 241. 2-Ge>. 326-Pet. 70. 10, 



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