ORCHIDACEM. 97 
Rootknobs the size of a black currant to that of a cherry. Stem 4 
to 15 inches high. Leaves 1} to 3 inches long, rather narrow and 
recurved. Spike 1 to 3 inches long; the flowers more distant than 
‘in any of the preceding. Helmet about ~ inch long, and the spur 
‘about } inch. Flowers dark crimson-purple, with the sepals more or 
less distinctly marked with greenish lines; rarely the flowers are 
flesh-coloured or white. 
Green-winged Meadow Orchis. 
French, Orchis Bouffon. German, Gemeines Knabenkraut. 
Section I].—ANDRORCHIS. Reich. fil. 
Lateral sepals more or less spreading or reflexed, not connivent in a 
SPECIES VUI—ORCHIS MASCULA. Linn. 
Pirate MCCCCLV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCXC. 
Billot, F1. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2246. 
Rootknobs undivided, ovate- or oval-subglobular. Leaves oblong- 
oblanceolate or strapshaped-oblanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse, generally 
spotted with purplish-black. Flowers in a rather lax blunt spike. 
Bracts about as long as the ovary, scarious, coloured, l-nerved. Lateral 
sepals at first spreading, at length reflexed, the upper sepal and the 
petals connivent, all of them acute or obtuse or acuminate, purplish- 
crimson; labellum about as broad as long, with the sides more or 
ess reflexed, crimson-purple, paler at the base and spotted with darker 
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purple, 3-lobed; the middle lobe a little longer than the lateral lobes, 
and about equal to them in length, emarginate or notched, and more 
or less crenulate; spur broadly cylindrical, nearly straight or incurved, 
truncate or obtuse, ascending or horizontal, about as long as the 
ovary. 
_ In pastures and open places in woods and by their borders, 
Common, and universally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, early 
Suminer. 
Rootknobs from the size of a hazel nut to that of a small walnut. 
‘Leaves 3 to 9 inches long, sometimes wholly green, but more com- 
‘monly with round spots of very dark purple, almost black. Stem 8 
inches to 2 feet high. Spike 2 to 6 incheslong. Sepals nearly } inch 
‘ong, generally acute, but sometimes obtuse, and sometimes acuminate 
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