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an inch in length, to cylintlrical and an inch and longer, acuminate; upper lip narrowed above 

 half long, rough or \ illose, pointed, and furnished with a point, longer than the lower lip, of a green 

 with a few fibres : the stem from six to nine colour : the filaments long : anthers very large : 

 inches high, the lower part smooth, the upper the germ longer than the petals, but shorter than 

 downy : the root-leaves four or more, forming a the bracte, large, deeply grooved. It is a native 

 tuft, ovate-lanceolate, smooth, entire at the of Europe, flowering in June and July, 

 margins, bright green, half an inch in breadth. The sixth species has the stem six inches high, 

 dotted when magnified, and faintly ribbed. By more or less according to its place of growth, 

 the side of these, and not from amongst them, round, smooth, covered below with leaves em- 

 arises the stem, clothed with three or four lance- bracing it; the leaves next the root an inch and 

 olate, acuminate, embracing le;iyes, downy, and half long, almost an inch broad, ovate-lanceolate, 

 membranous at the edoe : the spike from two to somewhat blunt, marked with impressed lines, 

 four inches long, twisted in a spiral form, with smooth, spreading on the ground ; those of the 

 numerous (fifteen or more) flowers, grow ing from stalk few, narrower and more pointed : the flow- 

 one side, and following its spiral direction. It ers from tln-ee to six, in a thin spike. It is a 

 is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering native of Britain, flowering in June, 

 from August to October. It is fancied by some to resemble a bee, by 



The third has the root composed of many others a spider ; from the breadth of the lip, and 

 strong fibres, from which arise two oval veined its being marked with different shades of brown, 

 leaves, three inches lone, and two broad, joined it derives its resemblance to the latter. Others 

 at their base; between these springs up a naked have dicovered a likeness to a small bird in the 

 stalk about eight inches high, terminated bv a flower. 



loose spike of herbaceous Howers, resembhng The seventh has a single bulb, round or some- 

 gnats, composed of five petals, with a long bifid what oblong, with a few thick fibres from the 

 lip to the nectarium, a crest or standard above, crown: the stem about six inches high, round 

 and two winars on the side. It is a native of and smooth : the root-leaves two or three, sheath- 

 many parts of Europe. ing the stem, lanceolate, acute, smooth, of a 

 The fourth species has the bulbs roundish : shining yellowish green, marked with parallel 

 the stem from nine to fifteen inches high: the veins: on the stem one or two sessile awl-shaped 

 leaves three or four, sheathing the stem at the leaves: spike an inch or an inch and half long, 

 base, lanceolate, pale green, smooth, shining, of numerous flowers, which are greenish yellow, 

 marked with numerous longitudinal nerves, the with a faint musky smell. It is a native of many 

 intermediate space covered with a thin somewhat parts of Europe; Sweden, Denmark, &c., flower- 

 pellucid puckered skin, giving them a silvery hue : ing in July. 



the upper part of the stem naked, yellowish green. The eiijhth species has a stem about afoot 

 nearly round, smooth : the bractes linear-lance- high, firm, smooth, round at the base, soine- 

 olate, much longer than the germ, pale yellowish what angular upwards: the root-leaves four or 

 green : the flowers in a long thinly scattered five, sheathing the stem at the base, lanceolate 

 spike; sometimes fifteen in number, but seldom 

 more than four or five : it has much resemblance 

 to a fly. It is a native of Sweden, &c. It 

 ■flowers in May and June. 



but varying in breadth, spreading : above these 

 one or two more, closely embracing the stem : 

 the flowers numerous, in a long loose spike. 

 They vary in number from ten to fifty. The lip 



There are several varieties, as the flv-shaped ; of the nectary is so divided as to bear a coarse 



the great fly ; the large green fly ; the blue fly ; resemblance to the human arms and legs, whence 



and the yellow fly. it has been named Man Orchis. It is a native 



The fifth has the .stem about afoot hioh, Icafv, of the southern parts of Europe, and England, 



round except between the fructifications, v\hcre flowering in June. 



It is compressed : the leaves alternate, lanceolate. It vanes in size, and in the colour of its 



sheathing, pubescent, nerved: the bractes longer flowers, from yellow green to bright ferruginous. 



than the germs, lanceolate. The three outer Ciillure. — All these plants may be introduced 



petals large, spreading, purple, with the keel and into the different parts of pleasure-grounds trora 



two nerves green; the two inner petals very tiie places w here they crow naturally in this coun- 



small, hairy, rellex, green : the lower lip of the try, and be preserved ; but they do not admit of 



nectary large, wide, but shorter than the petals, being propaijated in them ; the ])roper period for 



dusky purple mixed with vcUow, three- lohed, tiie this purpose is just before the stalks decay, in the 



.■^ide-lobes smaller, hairv, reflex, triangtilar, aeu- latter end of summer or beginning of the autumn, 



minate ; the middle one verv large, inibescent, as at that season the bulbs will be in the best state 



ihrce-lobed, bent down, the middle segment for growing strong and flowering the following 



