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numerous, minute, yellowish-green, in a spikelike raceme, otherwise as 
in Liparis. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is from pa\daow, I soften. 
SPECIES I—MALAXIS PALUDOSA. Swuaitz. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCXCIV. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 78. 
Ophrys paludosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1841. 
The only known species. 
In bogs on Sphagnum. Rather scarce, but widely distributed, from 
Devon, Hants, and Kent, north to Sutherland and Ross. Rare and 
local in Ireland, but distributed from south to north. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, 
Autumn. 
Rootstock a bulb clothed with soft whitish sheaths. Leaves 3 to 5, 
obovate or oblong-obovate, concave, obtuse, acute or apiculate, often 
fringed with minute bulbules. Stem 1 to 4 inches high, slender, with 
five” angles. Raceme }inch to 2 inches long, rather lax. Pedicels 
shorter than the ov ary. Bracts minute, lanceolate, subscarious, about 
as long as the pedicels. Sepals broadly lanceolate, about + inch long. 
Petals narrower and shorter than the sepals; the labellum turned 
upwards, lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the sepals, its base 
embracing the column. F lowers greenish-yellow. 
Bog Orchis. 
French, Malawis des marais. German, Sumpf Weichkraut. 
Tre V.—CYPRIPEDEZ. 
Anthers 2, lateral; the central stamen sterile and petaloid; pollen- 
masses not stalked, consisting of pulpy granules cohering but slightly. 
GENUS XVIUI.—CYPRIPEDIUM. Linn. 
Perianth with the divisions spreading ; labellum turned downwards, 
very large, concave, and shaped like a Turkish slipper or French sabot. 
Column short, incurved, 5-cleft; the central division petaloid, each of 
the lateral divisions bearing an anther. Pollen pulpy, granular, 
Herbs with shortly creeping rootstocks with slender rootfibres. 
Stem with a few large parallel-nerved and plaited leaves sheathing at 
