90 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GENUS Il.—ORCHIS. Jinn. 
Sepals and lateral petals connivent, or the lateral sepals spreading 
or turned upwards ; labellum turned downwards, spurred at the base, 
Anther wholly adnate to the columna; its 2 cells converging at the 
base, and each containing a stalked pollen-mass; caudicules affixed each — 
to a separate gland, the 2 glands included within a common pouch, or 
rarely the two masses attached to 1 common gland. Stigma with a — 
rostellate process extending between the bases of the anther-cells. 
Terrestrial herbs, with the root-tubers globular, ovoid, or palmated. 
Leaves sheathing at the base, those on the stem smaller. Flowers in 
spikes pointing in all directions. 
Sus-Genus I.—HIMANTOGLOSSUM. Spreng. 
Labellum with the middle lobe twisted, coiled in estivation; spur 
very short. Pollen-masses attached to a common gland contained ina 
pouch. 
SPECIES L—ORCHIS HIRCINA. Scop. : 
Pirate MCCCCXLVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. CCCLX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2745. 
Himantoglossum hircinum, Spreng. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 795. 
Parlat. F\. Ital. Vol. III. p. 443. ‘ 
Aceras hircina, Lindl. Orchid. p. 282. eich. fil. l.c. p. 5. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 
Vol. III. p. 283. 
Loroglossum hircinum, [ich, in Ann. Mus. Vol. IV. p. 54. Crep. Man. Fl. Belg 
ed. ii. p. 291. 
Satyrium hircinum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 34. 
Rootknobs undivided, ovoid, or subglobular. Leaves oval-oblong, 
subobtuse. Flowers on a rather lax spike. Bracts longer than the 
ovary, scarious, 3- to 5-ribbed. Sepals and lateral petals connivent, 
pale greenish-olive, indistinctly streaked and spotted with dull purple; 
labellum 3-lobed, undulated at the base; the lateral lobes short, strap- 
shaped, acute ; the middle lobe very long, much longer than the ovary, 
spirally coiled in bud, at length undulated and slightly spiral, strap- 
shaped, truncate and 2- or 3-toothed at the apex, greenish-white, 
spotted with purple towards the base, pale greenish-olive towards the 
apex; spur shorter than the sepals and much shorter than the germen, 
conical, very obtuse, slightly decurved. 
