Pirate XLVI. 
OPHRYS rusca, Link, and OPHRYS tvrma, Cay. 
Natural Order OrcHIDACER. 
Gun. Cuar.—See description of Plate XLIII. 
Spec. Cuar.—F lowers few. Sepals green, the uppermost forming 
a hood over the anther. Petals linear, yellow, green or brown. Lip 
wedge-shaped, nearly flat, lobed, gibbous at the base, velvety except on 
the bilobed marking and the narrow margin. Anther without any 
beak. . 
Ophrys fusca, Link in Schrad. Diar. p. 2 (1799); Gren. et Godr. 
Fl. de Fr. ii. 8305; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 353. , 
Spec. Cuar.—Petals yellow, linear-oblong. Lip nearly as broad as 
long, margin wide, smooth, wavy. Anther without any beak. 
Ophrys lutea, Cav. Ic. 11. p. 46, t. 160; Gren. et Godr. FI. de Fr. iii. 
305; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 353. 
Hasirat.—Sunny banks near the shore. March. 
Remarks.—The two plants figured on this Plate were included by 
Linnzeus under Ophrys insectifera ; and, different as they seem, I have 
some reason to suppose that a more accurate knowledge of the inter- 
mediates may at some future day lead me to enter into and understand 
this view. For the present, however, I treat O. lutea, Cav., (the plant 
‘figured on the right-hand,) and O. fusca, Link, (that on the left,) as 
distinct from one another and from all others, though, as this Plate 
shows, O. fusca, Link, varies considerably in the direction of O. lutea, 
Cav. Probably O. muscifera, Huds., is a near approach ’'to O. fusea, 
Link, but this plant has not been found at Mentone, and I have never 
had the opportunity of studying it in life. O. fusca, Link, and O. 
Intea, Cayv., are found in Lusitania, southern and south-western France, 
Ttaly, Sardinia, Sicily, Dalmatia, Greece, and Crete. 
ExpianaTion OF Prate XLVI.—Fig. 1, lip of O. fusca, Link. 
Fig. 2, anther and stigmatic chamber of the same. Both figures 
magnified. 
