ORCHIS. 



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90. Showy Orchis. The flower of this plant (Figs. 

 91, 92) is provided with floral envelopes, all coloured like 

 a corolla. As in Dog's-tooth Violet, we shall call them 

 collectively the perianth, although they are not all alike. 

 One of them projects forward in front of the flower, 



Fig. 91. 



forming the lip, and bears underneath it a long, hollow 

 spur which, like the spurs of Columbine, is honey-bearing. 

 The remaining five converge together, forming a kind of 



Fig. 91. Showy Orchis. 



