122 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I—NEOTTIA NIDUS-AVIS. Rich. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XTII. Tab. CCCCLXXTII. 
Listera Nidus-avis, Hook. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p.38. Hook. & Arn. Brit. F1. ed. viii. 
p. 430. 
Ophrys Nidus-avis, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 48. 
Stem stout. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate. Sepals and lateral petals 
oval-oblong, subconnivent; labellum oblong, concave at the base, 
split scarcely half-way up into two oblong semilunar blunt divaricate 
segments. Column not hooded. 
In moist woods and copses, especially on chalky soil, growing 
amongst dead leaves. Rather frequent in England; more rare in 
Scotland, and not reaching north of Forfar, Moray, and Argyle. 
Very rare in Ireland, and found only in the east and north-east. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock shortly creeping, descending towards the apex, very 
densely clothed with thick cylindrical pale fawn-colour simple root- 
fibres, from the point of which it is stated new plants are produced 
(see Leight. Fl. Shrop. p. 434). Flowering stem produced from the 
apex of the rootstock, sharply curved at the base, then erect, 9 to 18 
inches high, stout, clothed with numerous scarious sheaths. Raceme 
spikelike, 2 to 8 inches long, usually lax and interrupted at the base, 
dense towards the apex, blunt. Bracts scarious, longer than the 
pedicel, shorter than the ovary. Sepals about } inch long; labellum 
about 4 inch. Whole plant, including the flowers, light brownish 
fawn-coloured. 
Bird’s-nest Orchis. 
French, Néottie nid d@oiseau. German, Gemeines Vogelnest. 
GENUS XU.—E PIPACTIS. (Crantz.) Rich. 
Perianth subherbaceous or coloured; segments all spreading or 
spreading-incurved, free; labellum turned downwards, not spurred, 
concave at the base, constricted in the middle so as to have a terminal 
more or less pointed ovate or transverse terminal flat lobe with two 
prominent folds at the base on the upper side. Column short; 
rostellum short, subquadrate. Anther sessile; pollen-masses clavate- 
cylindrical, attached to a common gland ; pollen mealy. 
Herbs with oval or elliptical sessile amplexicaul leaves, the lowest 
ones generally reduced to sheaths. Flowers horizontal or drooping, 
in lax subunilateral racemes, commonly greenish or reddish. 
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