ORCHIDACEAE. US 
shining transverse blotch at the base, horseshoeshaped on the upper 
side, and straight across, or with two projecting points towards the 
apex of the labellum; the labellum has scarcely any curvature from 
base to apex, and the lateral lobes are much farther from the base 
than in the other British species. 
Fly Orchis. 
French, Ophrys mouche. German, Fliegendhiuliche Frauenthrine. 
Tripe I].—NEOTTIEX. 
Anther terminal, attached to the column by its base, persistent ; 
pollen-masses without stalks, consisting of subpulverulent grains 
which cohere but slightly. 
GENUS VUI—SPIRANTHES. Lich. 
Perianth coloured; segments all connivent, the uppermost one 
more or less adherent to the inner lateral ones; the exterior lateral 
ones oblique, and covering the labellum at the base; labellum turned 
downwards, not spurred, with two callosities at the base, channelled 
and embracing the column in the basal portion, recurved at the apex, 
entire, not contracted in the middle. Column short, prolonged into a 
2-toothed rostellum. Anther sessile, applied to the rostellum; pollen- 
masses clavate, without stalks, affixed to a common gland; pollen 
mealy. 
Herbs with 2, 3, or more oblong or cylindrical tubers, and ovate, 
oblanceolate, elliptical, or strapshaped leaves, which are chiefly radical. 
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Flowers small, white or pink, in a spike with 1 or 3 spiral ranks. 
The name of this genus of plants is derived from ozetpa (speira), a spiral, and avOo¢ 
(anthos), flower. 
SPECIESI—SPIRANTHES AUTUMNALIS. Lich. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXIYV. 
Billot, ¥). Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1966. 
Neottia spiralis, Sw. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. iv. No. 35. 
Ophrys spiralis, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 541. 
Root with 2 or 3 lanceolate- or oblong-ovoid knobs. [vadical leaves 
in a rosette at one side of the flowering-stem, not surrounding it, and 
appearing after it in autumn, oval or ovate or oval-elliptical; leaves 
on the flowering-stem minute, resembling bracts. Flowers in one 
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