PETALOIDE 201 
The common Orchis mascula yields jalep or salep, 
a nutritive juice derived from the roots. Vanilla is 
a spice of importance. The “air plants” with their 
clinging roots are often grown in the hothouse on 
wire, etc. Anagrzecum yields a sort of tea. 
Usually the flowers are in a raceme or in a spike, 
and are usually also spurred. 
SPOTTED ORCHID (Orchis maculata). 
This is one of those beautiful wild flowers that 
help to make the country gay in early summer, and, 
being common, it is fairly well known. There are only 
a few Welsh and Scotch counties where it does not 
grow. In the Highlands it grows at the high eleva- 
tion of 3000 ft. 
The Spotted Orchid is always found in a moist 
situation. As a rule it may be found in most lowland 
marshy tracts. Wet meadows are a special habitat 
for this pretty species, where it grows in great 
quantities. Where little streams run down from the 
sides of a hill the Spotted Orchis grows also in 
profusion. 
The stem is a scape only with sheathing leaves, 
with a tuberous root. The leaves are spotted, as 
indicated by the name. The stem is solid, slender, 
the leaves lanceolate-acute, somewhat recurved; the 
bracts have three veins, and are green, subulate, 
about as long as the ovary. 
The flowers are a delicate lilac, crimson spotted, 
and arranged inaspike. The lip is trifid, flat, crenate, 
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