102 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Rootknobs similar to those of the preceding species. Stem 6 inches 
to 2 feet high or even more, more slender and commonly with a 
greater difference in the size and shape of the upper and lower leaves, 
the lower leaves of O. maculata being more spreading, larger, broader, 
and blunter than the upper ones, and almost always thickly spotted with 
circular blotches of purplish-black. Spike 1 to 3 inches long, more 
attenuated towards the apex and more acute, the bracts shorter in 
proportion, the flowers usually paler, the labellum much more deeply 
3-lobed, and the lateral lobes usually much more crenate-denticulate ; 
the time of flowering is later than that of O. latifolia and about the 
same time as that of O. incarnata. 
Spotted Palmate Orchis. 
French, Orchis taché. German, Geflecktes Knabenkraut. 
GENUS I1.—GYMNADENIA. QR. Brown. 
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Perianth segments spreading, or the upper 5 segments connivent; 
labellum turned downwards, spurred at the base. Anther wholly 
adnate to the column; its 2 cells converging at the base, and each 
containing a pollen-mass, of which the caudicule is affixed to a gland, 
the two glands not included in a pouch. Stigma with a rostellate 
process extending between the bases of the anther-cells. 
Herbs with palmated or pointed (rarely subglobular) rootknobs. 
Habit similar to that of Orchis, but sometimes the flowers are more 
or less secund. 
The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from the Greek words, yup'éc, 
naked, and aéjjv, a gland, because the glands are not contained in a pouch. 
SPECIES I-—GYMNADENIA CONOPSEA. 2. Br. 
Pratr MCCCCLX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCXXIIT. to CCCCXXYV. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No, 2378. 
Reich. fil. lc. p. 113. 
Orchis conopsea, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 10. Benth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. 
ed. ii. p. 460. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 23. 
Rootknobs 2, palmately cleft, compressed. Leaves oblong-strap- 
shaped or strapshaped-lanceolate, acute. Flowers in a dense or rather 
dense cylindrical tapering spike, not unilateral. Lateral sepals spread- 
ing, the upper one and the lateral petals connivent ; labellum about as 
broad as long, 3-lobed; the lobes all oblong-deltoid, obtuse, or the 
lateral lobes subrhombic; the middle lobe as broad as and a little 
longer than the lateral lobes; the whole of the perianth segments 
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