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lobes are flightly crenated and reflex'd ; the cen- 

 tral one is crenated and flightly bifid : the fpur 

 is about the length of the germen, obtufe at 

 the end, emarginated, and a little afcending: 

 the Bra^ea are of the colour of the flower, and 

 about the length of the germen. 



ORCHIS bulbis indivifis, neclarii labio quadrilo- 

 bo crenulato j cornu obtufo, petalis dorfalibus 

 reflexis. Sp. pi. 1333. Syft. nat. 590. {Ger. em. 

 208./. I. Seg. Veron. t. 15./. 6.pf. Vaill Paris. 

 t. 31./. II, 12. Kivin. t. 21. Blakwell t. 53. 

 Oed. dan. t, ^5J. Haller. hiji.12^^. t. S^.opi.) 



Male Fool-ftones.- Anglis. 



In woods frequent, as in Logton-Wood, near BaU 

 keith, &c. %. VI. 



The flalk is about a cubit high : the leaves broad,' 

 flat, and glofly, and generally ftained with 

 blood-colour'd fpots : the flowers grow in a long 

 thin rpike, of a fpecious purple colour : the 

 exterior petals are oval and acute ; the two fide 

 ones fold back, ftand ere6t, and have no green 

 ftreaks : the lip of the neftarium is crenated 

 an^ trifid, and the middle lobe bifid, but is 

 lengthened out beyond the fide ones. In thefe 

 refpeds it differs from the preceding. 



The fpikes of thefe flowers are the Long-Purples^ 

 or dead men's fingers^ which helped to compofe 

 poor Ophelia's garlands : 



L 1 2 There 



