CL. XX.] GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 339 



1. G.repens. Creeping Goodyera. Leaves egg-shaped ; spike spiral ; 



lip and petals lance-shaped. Root creeping : stem about six inches 



high : spike spiral, the flowers inclining one way, pale-green, with a 

 sweet scent. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in fir woods in the 

 north of Scotland : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. v. pi. 289. Eng. Fl. 

 vol. iv. p. 33. Satyrium repens. 1250. 



6. NEO'TTIA. LADIES'-TRESSES. 



Calyx superior, of three egg-shaped, converging, permanent, 

 coloured leaves. Petals two, oblong, erect, converging under the 

 upper leaf of the calyx. Nectary spurless, as long as the calyx, 

 prominent, oblong, bluntish, keeled beneath. Anther roundish, 

 parallel to the stigma, of two cells close together. Germen 

 inversely egg-shaped, with three furrows. Style short, thick, 

 cylindrical; stigma prominent, globose, with two points. Capsule 

 inversely egg-shaped, with three furrows. Seeds very minute. 

 Name, neottia, a bird's-nest. 413. 



1. N. spirdlis. Ladies -tresses. Leaves egg-shaped, stalked; spike 

 twisted, the flowers pointing one way ; bracteas downy, tumid ; lip egg- 

 shaped, entire. Leaves all radical : stalk about four inches high : 



flowers small, white, highly fragrant. Perennial : flowers in August 

 and September : grows in pastures and meadows, in various parts of 

 England. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 541. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 35. Ophrys 

 spiralis. 1251. 



2. IV. Kstivdlis. Summer Ladies'-tresses. Root-leaves between linear 

 and lanceolate, those of the stem narrowly lance-shaped ; spike loose, 



twisted. Root of elongated cylindrical tubers. Perennial : flowers in 



July and August : discovered by Messrs. Babington and Christy in marshy 

 ground in Jersey. Near London. Eng. Bot. Suppt. pi. 2817. Brit. Fl. 

 4th ed. p. 318. " Prim. FL Sam. p. 93. 1252. 



3. N. gemmipara. Proliferous Ladies'-tresses. Leaves lanceolate, as tall 



as the stalk ; spike three-ranked, twisted ; bracteas smooth. Root of 



two slender fleshy elongated tubers : leaves erect, acute, three-ribbed : 

 spike egg-shaped, dense, of about eighteen white flowers. Perennial : 

 flowers in July: said to have been found by Mr. Drurnmond, on the 

 north side of Bantry Bay, Ireland. Eng. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2786. Eng. 

 FL vol. iv. p. 36. 1253. 



7. LISTE'RA. LISTERA. 



Calyx superior, of three egg-shaped, spreading, permanent 

 leaves. Petals two, lance-shaped, spreading, nearly as long as the 

 calyx. Nectaries spurless, much longer than the petals, two- or 

 four-lobed, the disk with a longitudinal central furrow. Anther 

 oblong, parallel to the stigma, of two close, parallel, linear cells. 

 Germen roundish, angular. Style cylindrical, very short. Stigma 

 of two unequal flat lips, the lower rounded, very short. Capsule 

 oblong, obtuse, ribbed. Seeds minute. Named after Dr. Martin 

 Lister, an English naturalist. 414. 



1. L. ovdta. Common Tway-blade. Leaves elliptical, opposite ; nec- 

 tary with two linear lobes. Root of numerous long, cylindrical, 



smooth radicles, connected in bundles by one common fibre : stems from 



