AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 119 
from a broad base and hooded at the end, the 
stem also hollow. O. morzo, the Green-winged 
Meadow Orchis, has a spike of only a few 
purple flowers, the petals marked with green 
veins. O. ustulata, the Brown (or burnt) 
topped Orchis, is a beautiful dwarf plant, with 
helmet of dark purple, and each lobe of its 
whitish lip decorated with a round crimson 
spot. Specimens have reached the author 
from the Isle of Wight; and it is abundant in 
Kent, on calcareous hills, and in dry open 
meadows. O. pyramidalis is much like a small 
rich-pink hyacinth, but its spike is distinctly 
pyramidal, this feature alone being sufficient to 
determine it; its lip, which has three equal 
lobes, has also two ¢udercles at its base above. 
Listera cordata, the small Tway-blade, is a 
pretty miniature of the larger species. Ophrys 
apifera, and O. muscifera, the Bee and Fly 
Orchids, are happily still frequent, and in their 
perfect resemblance to those insects, and their 
intrinsic beauty and singularity of appearance, 
equal any known specimen. 
