5i6 GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 



There with fantaftic garlands did (he come. 

 Of crow-flowers, nettles, dailies, and lo'ng purples^ 

 (That liberal Hiepherds give a grofler name. 

 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.) 



Harolet^ a^ 4. 

 Th(ifdlep of the fhops is made, for the mod part, 

 of the roots of this Orchis; for this purpofe the 

 largeft and plumped bulbs muft be gathered, 

 lliinned, and boiled over a gentle fire for half 

 an hour -, afterwards they muft be ftrung upon 

 a thread, and hung up in the fliade till they are 

 dry. Thefe, reduced to powder, are the faiepy 

 cfteemed as a reftorative an^J aphrodifiac, and 

 reckoned ferviceable alfo in dyfenteries, and 

 phthificky complaints. 



""'* Btdhis palmatis, 



tijdia 5i ORCH'S bulbis fubpalmatis redlis, necStarii cornw 

 conico •, labio trilobo lateribus reflexo, brafteis 

 fiore longioiibus. Zp. pi. 133^. (Ger. em. 226./. 

 i. ££? 222./. 3. Vaill.paris. t. '2^\.f. i, 2, 3, 4, 

 H.jlores. BlakweU. t. 405. Oed,dan. t. 266, opt. 

 I Idler. hi(l. 1279. /. 32. horn.) 



Male handed Orchis. Anglis. 



.In marfliy grounds and bogs common. "4. VI. 



The bulbs are divided into two or three fingers, 

 which are not divaricated, but run diredly 

 downwards : the leaves are broad, and com- 

 monly without fpots, but are fometinies obfcurely 

 llained ; the ftalk is 1 foot or more high, ftriated 



and 



