ORCHIDACE. abil 
SPECIES I-OPHRYS APIFERA. Huds. 
Puate MCCCCLXVII. 
Reich. Te. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLVII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3479. 
Sepals pink or rose; labellum velvety, especially towards the margin, 
with glabrous markings, oval, semiglobose, with the sides reflexed, 
3-lobed from from the base; the lateral lobes with humps at the base, 
and points produced beyond the margin of the labellum; the middle 
lobe with 2 reflexed segments with a long strapshaped-triangular 
sigmoid-reflexed appendage. Anther terminated by an acute reflexed 
process. 
On chalk downs and the borders of fields and rough banks on 
chalky and limestone soils. Rather local, but generally distributed in 
the south of England, extending in the west as far north as Tenby; 
but in the east to the chalk districts of Yorkshire and the magnesian 
limestone of Durham. Rare, but widely distributed in the south and 
middle of Ireland, where it is recorded as occurring on sandhills, as 
well as in calcareous and clayey pastures. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Midsummer. 
Rootknobs subglobular, from the size of a black currant to that of 
a large cherry, one of them often at the end of a short thick descend- 
ing stolon. Leaves oblong-elliptical, rapidly decreasing in size up- 
wards. Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high. Bracts commonly rather longer 
than the ovary, sometimes longer than the flowers. Flowers 2 to 5, 
rarely as many as 8 or 10. Calyx segments oblong-elliptical, boat- 
shaped, fleshcolour or pink (rarely nearly white), greenish on the 
back, 5 to 2 inch long, spreading; petals much narrower and shorter 
than the sepals, strapshaped, downy on the inside; labellum about as 
long as the calyx segments, maroon purple with yellow markings ; 
the lateral lobes more hairy than the middle lobe, especially at their 
prominent base, reflexed; the middle lobe most hairy towards the 
apex and margins, variously marked with yellow hues and dots; the 
terminal point bent first backwards and then forwards. 
Bee Orchis. 
French, Ophrys abeille. German, Bienendhnliche Frawenthriine. 
SPECIES I—OPHRYS ARACHNITES. Reichard. 
Pirate MCCCCLXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXI. 
O. fuciflora, Reich. fil. l.c. p. 85. Crep. Man. FI. Belg. ed. ii. p. 98. 
Sepals pink ; labellum velvety, especially at the sides; subqua- 
