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The root confifts of two oval folid bulbs, crowned 

 with thick flelhy fibres : the ftalk is angular, 

 from a foot to eighteen inches high. The leaves 

 are radical, oval, two or three inches wide, and 

 generally two in number, but fometimes three. 

 Thofe on the ftalk are fmali, and refemble lan- 

 ceolate ^/p^^/^. The flowers are white, with a 

 flight mixture of green, and grow in a lono- lax 

 fpike. The petals are diilended fo as clearly to 

 exhibit the ftamina to open view : the lip is long 

 narrow and linear : the neciarium^ov fpur is tu- 

 bular, a little comprefl^ed, about an inch long, 

 and contains a clear liquor. The anthsra are 

 yellow, and diflant from each other : the flow- 

 ers in the morning and evening have a fweet 

 honey-like fmell. 

 /?^ There is a variety of this orchis with a fmaller 

 flower and fliorter ftalk, which bloflbms later, 

 and grows in dry paftures, called the leflTer but- 

 terfly orchis. 

 The roots of this, and moft of the other fpecies 

 of orchis, are efteeraed to be aphrodiflacal. 



pyramidalis ORCHIS bulbis indivifis, nedarii labio bicorni 

 ~ 2. trifido sequali integerrimo, cornu longo, petalis 



fublanceolatis. Syfi, nat. 589. Sp.pL 1332. (Rail 

 Syn. p. 377. /. 18. hon. Seg, Veron. t. 15. /. u. 

 flof. Vaill. paris. /. 31./. 38. Jlof. Rivin, t. 14. 

 Hall. hiji. Helvet. 1286. /. 35.) 

 Purple late-flowering Orchis. Anglis, 



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