GYNANDRIA DIANDRiA, 



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eorallorhiza ORPHYS bulbis ramofis ficxuofis, caule vaginato, 

 ^T aphyllo, neftarii labio trifido. Syfi. vat. ^^2. 



Sp.pl, 1339. (Ger. em. iS^S-f- 2. Halkr. hijl, 

 1301. /. 44. Oed. Ban. /. 451. ^ fig- noji.) 



Coral-rooted Ophrys. Jnglis. 



In marfhy woods, but very rare. V7e obfervcd it 

 only in one place, and there fparingly, viz. in a 

 moift hanging wood, on the fouth fide, near the 

 head of Liiile-Lock-Broom, on the weilern coalt 

 of Rofs-Jhire.,%. VI. VII. 



The root confifts of v/hite, thick, fucculent, obcufc 

 'fibres, branched like coral. The ilalk is about 

 fix or eight inches high, and has no other leaves 

 than lheathing_y?/^«/^. The flowers grow in a 

 thin fpike, about eight or ten in number, verg- 

 ing a little to one fide of the ftalk, and fub- 

 tended each by an oval-lanceolate greenifla Brac- 

 tea. The upper petals are green, oval lanceo- 

 late, and connive in the form of a fcmicylindric 

 Galea. The lateral petals are patent, whitiCi, 

 and ftreaked with a green line. The lip is oval- 

 lanceolate, white, and ftreaked with two green 

 lines, forming an acute angle. The flower is 

 furnifhed with four Jlamina, two in each cell. 

 The capfules nod. 



ovata. 3, OPHRYS bulbo fibrofo, caule bifolio, foliis ova- 

 tis, neftarii labio bifido. Sp. pL 1 340. (Ger. em. 

 402. /. I. Vet. herb. t. 70. /. 10. Rivin. t. 7. 

 Oed. Dan. t. 137. bon. Ilaller, hiJl. 1291. /. 37^ 

 opt.) 



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