ORCHIDACE. 101 
acute, not hooded at the apex, usually spotted with purplish-black. 
Bracts equalling or exceeding the lower flowers and sometimes all the 
flowers, but generally shorter than the upper ones. Sepals dull purplish- 
crimson ; labellum dull purplish-crimson, paler at the base, and spotted 
and lined with dark purple; the middle lobe usually not longer than 
the lateral lobes; spur conical. Seeds with the cells of the testa 
reticulate. 
In bogs and marshes, especially in peaty soil. Rather common, and 
generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
O. latifolia comes very near O. incarnata, from which it differs in 
the lower leaves being usually more spreading, and often spotted with 
dark purple, and especially i in their base being narrowed and their 
apex not hooded. The flowers are rather sm: iller, darker, and redder. 
A form of this, 3 feet high, is cultivated andes the name O. macu- 
lata-superba. 
Broad-leaved Marsh Orchis. 
French, Orchis a larges feuilles. German, Breitblittriges Knabenkraut. 
SPECIES XI—ORCHIS MACULATA. Lin. 
Prate MCCCCLIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCVI. to CCCCIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2379. 
Rootknobs palmately cleft, compressed. Stem solid during the 
period of flowering. Lower leaves oval or oblong, subobtuse, almost 
always spotted with purplish-black ; upper ones lanceolate or strap- 
shaped, acute. Flowers in a dense oblong-pyramidal spike, which is 
subacute until all the flowers are expanded. Bracts herbaceous, 
3-nerved, all usually shorter than the flowers, or at least not exceeding 
them. Lateral sepals reflexed upwards, the upper one and the petals 
connivent, all of them subobtuse or acute, pale lilac or white, with 
purple ribs; labellum about as broad as long, with the sides reflexed, 
pale lilac or nearly white, spotted or lined with purple, deeply 3-lobed ; 
the middle lobe narrower than the lateral ones and slightly exceeding 
them, or more rarely only equal to them in length; the lateral lobes 
commonly denticulate; spur conico-cylindrical, straight, shorter than 
the ovary or about equal to it. 
In meadows, pastures, damp places in open woods and on chalky 
banks. Common and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
