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POPULAR NAMES 



ORCHIS, BOG-, 



BUTTERFLY-, 



DRONE-, 



FLY-, 



FROG-, 



GREEN-MAN-, 



GREEN MUSK-, 



HAND-, 



LIZARD-, 



MAN-, 



MILITARY-, 



MONKEY-, 



MUSK-, 

 SPIDER-, 



Malaxis paludosa, Sw. 

 Habenaria bifolia, RB. 

 Ophrys fucifera, Sm. 

 Ophrys niuscifera, Huds. 

 Habenaria viridis, RB. 

 Aceras anthropophora, RB. 

 Herminium monorchis, RB. 

 Orchis maculata, L. 

 Orchis hircina, Scop. 

 Aceras anthropophora, RB. 

 Orchis militaris, L. 

 Orchis tephrosanthos, Vill. 

 Herminium monorchis, RB. 

 Ophrys aranifera, Hud. 

 and arachnites, Willd. 



ORGANY, or ORGAN, marjoram, from L. origanum, Gr. 

 opvyavov, Origanum vulgare, L. 



also the penny-royal, Mentha Pulegium, L. 



ORPINE, Fr. orpin, contracted from orpiment, L. auripig- 

 mentum, gold pigment, a sulphuret of arsenic, a name 

 given in old works to certain yellow-flowered species of 

 the genus, but, perversely enough, transferred of late to 

 almost the only European one that has pink flowers, 



Sedum Telephium, L. 



ORRICE, either from its officinal Latin name, Acorus 

 Dioscoridis, or from Ireos, (sc. radix) by transposition of 

 the vowels, or very probably from some confusion between 

 these two words, ireos and acorus ; since the roots of two 

 different species of Iris were known as Acorus falsus or 

 adulterinus, and sold for those of Acorus Calamus, L. 

 (Bauhin's Pinax. p. 34.) It cannot be derived, as in our 

 dictionaries, from Iris, the initial I of which could not 

 have become 0, and could scarcely have remained unaspi- 

 rated. At present it means the Florentine Iris, but is used 

 in older works as a generic name, and in Cotgrave, and old 



