ORCHIDACER. 109 
Of this plant I have scen only dried continental specimens. The 
dried plant has much the aspect of Habenaria albida, but the root- 
knobs are 2, ovoid. The leaves are elliptical oblong, and chiefly 
collected into a rosette of 2 to 4, and are said to be generally spotted 
with brown. The stem in my specimens is 6 inches to 1 foot high, 
but Reichenbach says it is sometimes as little as 2 inches. Spike 1 
to 3 inches long, dense. Flowers more or less turned in one direction. 
Bracts triangular-lanceolate, membranous, 1-nerved, shorter than the 
ovary. Sepals and lateral petals connivent, the former lanceolate- 
acute; labellum a little longer than the perianth segments, suberect, 
oblong, 3-lobed; the lateral lobes strapshaped; the central lobe 
extending one-half beyond the lateral lobes and twice as broad, and 
truncate or notched at the apex; spur very short, conical. The 
perianth is described as pale pink, with the sepals and base of the 
labellum sometimes blotched with pale purple. The plant is remark- 
able for the two fleshy semilunar lobes of the stigma, with a broad 
flat plate between them. The anther-cells are affixed each to a 
gland; these glands are really naked, but appear to be contained in a 
pouch, from the “apex of the whole of the rostellum being rolled 
inwards.” (See “Proceedings of the London Botanical Congress, 
1866,” p. 176.) 
Dense-Flowered Orchis. 
GENUS VI—HERMINIUM. BP. Brown. 
Perianth segments all connivent; labellum turned downwards, not 
spurred at the base. Anther wholly adnate to the column; its two cells 
diverging at the base, and each containing a pollen-mass of which the 
very short caudicule is affixed to a larger gland, the two glands not 
contained in a pouch. Stigma without a rostellate process extending 
between the anther-cells or a plate in front of them. 
Herbs with globular rootknobs, the new one formed at the ex- 
tremity of a stolon in the British species. The habit is that of the 
preceding genera. 
This genus of Orchids is said to have been named after Hermione, the daughter of 
Helen. 
SPECIES I—HERMINIUM MONORCHIS. 2. Br. 
Prats MCCCCLXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCXYV. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 658. 
Ophrys Monorchis, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 71. 
Herminium clandestinum, Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 299. 
Rootknobs 2 or more, subglobose, the newly-formed one or ones 
