

35 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophrys. 



since found either in Norfolk or Suffolk ; but in 1785, I saw a 



Mr. Sole, 



Moor 



Mr. Woodw. and on other Moors near Cambridge by Mr 

 Relhan. See his Fl. Cantab. P. June, July 



cross-shaped. 



tary 



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9 



M 



Gmel. i. 4. \-Rupp. 2. 5, Monorchism at p. $38# 



Root solitary. Lip, the lateral lobes transverse. Flowers 

 yellowish, green, sweet. Linn. — Stem about 6* inches high, cy- 

 lindrical, smooth. Root-leaves 2 or 3, sheathing the stem, 

 spear-shaped, smooth, shining, yellowish green ; stem-leaves 1 or 

 2, awl-shaped, sitting. Spike one or one and a half inch long, 

 with numerous flowers. Flowers small, greenish yellow, with 

 a faint musky scent. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, taper-pointed, 

 the lower equal to or somewhat longer than the germen, the up- 

 per somewhat shorter. Germen oval, sitting, tapering above 

 into a sort of fruit-stalk, whence the flower hangs obliquely 

 nodding. Petals* the 3 outer oval spear-shaped, somewhat ap- 

 proaching, the 2 inner broad at the base, scolloped, and suddenly 

 narrowing into strap-spear-shaped. Lip deeply cloven into 3 J 

 segments spear-shaped. Woodw. 



Yellow Orchis. Musk Orchis, or Tvoayblade. Barren pas- 

 tures in a calcareous soil. [Chalk pit at Marham, near Swaff- 

 ham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. — Near Snettisham. Mr. 



] 



J 





anthropo- 



of the nectary 



pho'ra. shaped, 3 -cleft; the middle segment long; cloven. 



Cnrt.~E. hot. 29~Col. ecphr. i. 320. 1-Pet. 68. %-H*H. 23, 

 at ii. \33-F lowers only, VailL 31. 19 and 20. 



Bulbs roundish. Stem about I foot high, firm, smooth, cy- 

 lindrical at the base, somewhat angular upwards. Root-leaves 

 4 or 5, expanding, spear-shaped, varying in breadth ; stem-leaves 

 1 or 2 just above the former, closely embracing the stem. Spike 

 long, loose. Floral-leaves membranaceous, spear-shaped, finely 

 tapering at the end, half as long as the germen. Petals, the 3 

 outer oval-spear-shaped, greenish, with purple lines and edges ; 

 the 2 inner strap-shaped. Lip long, the 2 outer segments strap- 

 shaped, slender; the middlemost as long again, cloven half 



way down into 2 pointed and somewhat straddling segments. 

 Woodw. 



Man Twayblade. Chalky meadows and pastures, near 



Northfleet, Greenhithe, and other places in Kent. [Ashwel- 

 thorpe, near Norwich. Mr. Crowe.] P. June. 



