GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 525 



The leaves are only two, finooth, oppofite, and 

 hcart-fliaped, and about half an inch wide ac 

 the bafe : the flowers grow in a thin fpike, ten 

 or twelve in number ; of a green colour, often 

 turning red in decay : the petals are lanceolate, 

 and (land wide open : the lip is femibifid, longer 

 than the germen, and has a dent on each fide at 

 the bafe, which is wanting in the preceding 

 fpecies : the fegments are acute, and often of a 

 dark red colour. 



** Bidbis rctundis, 



pahidofa 5. OPHRYS bulbo fubrotundo, fcapo fubnudo, pen- 

 tagono, foJiorum apicibus fcabris, ncctarii labio 

 integro. Sp. pi. 1341. i^Pluk. aim, /. 247. /. 2. 

 Vet. herb. i. 70, /. 1 7) 



Marfli Opkrys. An^^Jis. 



We have received information that this has been 

 found in feme maifhes near St. Andrews, but \vc 

 do not affirm it from our own knowledge. 1;. 

 VIII. IX. 



The root confifts of one, and fometimes more 

 bulbs growing one above another, with fibres 

 fnooting from their bafe : tlie iialk is about a 

 finger's length, and has two or three alternate 

 oval-lanceolate leaves near its bafe, having their 

 inner margin towards the top ferrulated and 

 rough to the touch : the flowers are numerous, 

 twenty or thirty in a fpike, of a ycllowilh green 

 colour : the fide petals fold back and Hand e'recl ; 

 the lip of the ve'^arium is lanceolate and enrire. 



SERAPIAS 



