112 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
drate-ovate, slightly convex, with the sides not reflexed or but slightly 
reflexed, subentire, with the lateral lobes usually reduced to projecting 
humps; the terminal lobe notched with a rather long subrhomboidal 
or oblong-strapshaped subobtuse appendage in the same plane as the 
front of the labellum or curved inwards. Anther terminated by an 
acute reflexed or straight process. 
On chalk downs and by the borders of fields. Very local. Not un- 
frequent about Folkstone, and said to have occurred near Sitting- 
bourne; but I can find no trustworthy authority for its occurrence 
beyond the county of Kent. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Very similar to O. apifera, and, indeed, connected with it by inter- 
mediate forms; but these, I have no doubt, are hybrids, as they are 
always found where the two species grow together, but apparently 
never where one of them grows apart from the other. ‘The difference 
between O. apifera and QO. arachnites lies in the labellum, which in 
the latter is more spread out, broader towards the apex, and with the 
lateral lobes scarcely projecting beyond the general outline; the ter- 
minal appendage is never reflexed under the labellum; the colour of 
the labellum inclines to brown rather than to purple. 
Late Spider Orchis. 
French, Ophrys frelon. German, Spinnen-Frauenthrine. 
SPECIES I1T—OPHRYS ARANIFERA. Huds. 
Prates MCCCCLXIX. MCCCCLXX. 
Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tabs. CCCCXLIX. and CCCCLXIV. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1333. 
Sepals yellowish-green; labellum velvety, especially at the margins, 
with glossy glabrous markings, oval, half-ovoid, with the sides 
more or less reflexed, nearly entire or slightly 3-lobed at the base; 
the lateral lobes usually with humps at the base, and points scarcely 
produced beyond the margins; middle lobe nearly entire or notched, 
without an appendage, or more rarely with a minute tooth in the notch. 
Anther terminated by a short rather blunt straight process. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Pirate MCCCCLXIX. 
O. aranifera, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 65. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 31. Lindl. Syn. 
Brit. Fl. p. 262. 
Lateral petals glabrous or nearly so; labellum commonly lobed at 
the margin, more rarely entire. 
