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GYNANBRIA DIANDRIA. 



OPHRYS. Gen.pL ion. 

 Nefiarium lubtus fubcarinatum. 

 * Bulbis ramo/is. 

 Nidus avh OPHRYS bulbis fibrofo-fafciculatis, caule vagina- 

 '• to aphyllo, nedarii labio bifido. Syji. jiat, 592. 



Sp. pi 1339. {Ger. em. 228. /. i. Rivut. t. 7. 

 7'Gurnef. Inft. p. 438. /. 250. Halkr. hiji. ie^o. 

 t. 37. bona Oeder. Dan. t, 18 1. opt.) 



Bird's Neft Ophrys. Jnglis. 



In woods, but not common, as in Juchendenny 

 woods, ten miles from Edmhurgb^ towards La- 

 verk. Dr. Par/ons. And In the woods zx Finla- 

 rigy at the head of Loch-Tay, m Breadalhane^ 

 &c, Mr. Stuart, if. VI. 



The root confifts of a bundle of flefhy, brittle 

 cylindrical fibres, which grow fideways out of the 

 bafe of , the ftalk, at right angles. The whole 

 plant is.,jof an uniform pale brown, or fuille- 

 mort colour: the ftalk is ered, firm, brittle, 

 from a foot to a cubit high, deltitute of leaves, 

 hut furniilied with fufcous kales, or ftipuU, 

 ilicathlnf]; the ftalk: the flowers are numerous, 

 of the fame colour v/ith the ftalk, and grow in 

 ;i thick cylindrical Ipike, thineft at the bafe: 

 the Brati&^e are hardly fo long as the germen : 

 the petals all connive: the lip has an oval con- 

 cavity at the bafe, and is femibifid at the end : 

 the fegn^icnts recede v/idely from each other, and 

 r.rr little Hiorter than I'le germen. 



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