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variegated with purple and white and bloody fpots. The fpur is 

 hardly a line broad. It flowers in Auguft. 



144. Round purple-flowered Orchis (f). In the fame clofe. The 

 Howers are in a fliort, broad, compad: fpike, of a beautiful pale 

 rofe-colour. The fpur is flender, of about half the length of the 

 ovary. It flowers in Auguft and September. 



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145. Siveet-fcented purple-flowered Orchis (gj. In mountainous 

 wet meadows. In the meadow on the north and north-cart fide 

 of Cra^-lake, under the Roman wall. The flowers are of a dufky 

 purple, in a fliort, clofe fpike, of an agreeable odour. The fpur 

 is as long, or longer, than the ovary. It flowers in June. 



146. Sweet-fcented,, purple-flowered Mountain-Orchis, 'with long 

 leaves (h). On dry alpine banks, upon heaths, and on the banks 

 of corn-fields, and other unfilled places. On a dry bank by the 

 road on the eaft fide of Simonburn-ca.Q.\e, near the brook. On the 

 bauk of a corn-field on the north-weft fide of the oflium of the 

 brook at Wark t in Tynedale, plentifully. On Broadpool-Common, 

 between Confoeels and Blake-laiv y near Simonburn, by the road-fide,, 



(f) Orchis rotundus. 7. B. ii. p. 765. Orchis flore globofo. C. B. Pin. p. 81. Hid, 

 Oxon. iii. p. 292. Raj. Hift. p. 1216. Orchis rotunda. Raj. Syll. Stirp. ext. p. 191, 

 Orchis radicibus conicis, fpicabrevi, denfa, petalis caudatis. Hall. Helv. p. 365. 



(g) Orchis purpurea fpica congefla pyramidal!. Raj. Hift. p. 1215. Syn. iii. p. 377. 

 t. 1 8. Icon, optima. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 492. Orchis radicibus fubrotundis, bracteis flore 

 brevioribus, nedtarii labio trifido, feta longiffima. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 429. Royen. lugdb. 

 p. 14. Orchis radicibus fubrotundis, fpica deafa, labello squaliter tripartite, calcari ovaiii 

 longitudine. Hall. Helv, p. 364. 



(b) Cynoforchis montana purpurea odorata. C. B. Pin. p. 81. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 491. 

 Orchidis genus parvum, flore prorfus purpureo, odoris fuavifiimi. J. B. iii. p. 763. Raj. Hift. 

 p. 1215. Orchis montana purpurea odorata. Town. Inft. 



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