168 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
not so numerous on the spike. The lip is pale in the 
centre, with purple spots, three-lobed, the calyx leaves 
ribbed, purplish green, forming a sort of helmet over the 
rest of the flower. The spur is not so long as in the 
mascula. 
Orcuis Fusca. Great brown-winged Orchis. Found in 
woods, or chalky pastures on the borders of woods. It has 
a very handsome spike of brownish purple flowers. Stem 
often two feet high, and therefore showing the blossom con- 
spicuously. The upper part of the flower, or helmet, as it 
is called, is of a dark greenish purple, the lip paler and 
spotted, deeply divided into three, with rough, raised, dark 
points. Leaves ovate, oblong, and obtuse. 
Orcuis mitiraris. Military Orchis. May now be found 
about Reading, plentifully, and on chalky hills. It is very 
hike the last in most particulars, but the helmet is pale 
ash-coloured, lip deep purple, white in the middle. Leaves 
oblong, rather acute. 
Orcuis TEPHROSANTHOS. Monkey Orchis is a beautiful 
and curious species, smaller and more slender than the last. 
Flowers pale purple, spotted. Lower lip divided ‘into nar- 
row parts, deep purple, and covered with minute straight 
