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DIANDRIA. M0N0GYN1A. Ophrys. 37 



O. Bulbs roundish ; stem leafy ; lip of the nectary convex, muscif era, 



cloth-like, with 3 divisions, the middle segment 



cloven. 



Hall. 2i. 2, at ii 

 -Wale. -Pet. 6 



■Jaeq 



& ic. i. 181. 1 ~Ger. em. 213. 



KUFlt 



Petals, the 3 outer egg-shaped, entire, expanding ; the 2 

 Inner strap-shaped, blackish purple. Lip oblong, blackish 

 purple above, with a blue band below the upper lobes, under- 

 neath. Huds. — Petals, the 2 inner thread-shaped, blackish pur- 

 ple, resembling the feelers of an insect. Relhan. — Stem 9 to 

 15 inches high, firm, above naked, yellowish green, and nearly 

 cylindrical. Leaves 3 or 4, spear-shaped, pale green, shining, 

 with numerous longitudinal veins, the intermediate space covered 

 with a thin, somewhat puckered, pellucid skin, giving a silvery 

 hue. Floral-leaves strap-spear-shaped, keeled, much longer than 

 the germen, pale yellowish green. Flowers thinly scattered, 4 

 to 1.5, having much more the appearance of a fly than those of 

 O. apifera of a bee. — Petals, the 2 inner expanding, deep red- 

 dish brown, fringed with short hairs, cloven at the base, fixed to 

 the upper lip of tlie nectary. Nectary the upper Up hooded, co- 

 vering the stamens ; the U<voer with 3 lobes, the side lobes strap- 

 shaped, short, entire ; the middlemost somewhat oval, bent back 

 at the edges, divided by a deep angular notch into 2 lobes^ red- 

 dish brown, with a velvety down, with a blueish naked spot in 

 the centre. Woodward. — The blue spot upon the base of the 

 middle segment of the nectary lip, contributes much to its re- 

 semblance to a fly. 



Fly Orchis, or T<wayh!ad** O. insectife 

 'Meadows and oastures in a calcareous soil 



Cambridgeshire 



Suffolk, and Essex. Chalk Hills near Northfieet, and near 

 Croydon and Wrootham. [Bath Hills near Bungay, and Ears- 

 ham Wood, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. — In Plumpton Woods 

 near Ulverston. Mr. Atkinson. — On the high ground at the 

 back of the old well house, St. Vincent's rocks, Bristol.] 



Mr 



May, J 



Pestingfofd, Suffolk, and Welling, Hertfordshire ; Greenhithe, 

 and in the old chalk pit near the white house by N* Gray. 

 R. Sjn. 379. But from the fig. of J. B. ii. 7^)8, to which he 

 refers, it will probably prove to be a different species. 



O, Bulbs roundish : stem leafy : lip of the nectary with 5 apifera 



lobes, the lobes bent in underneath. Huds, shorter ^ 

 than the petals. Woodward. 





