228 .OF TREES AND PLANTS, 



next the fields, fparingly. The flalk is ilcnder, from fix to nine 

 inches high. The flowers are in a thin fpike, of a uniform 

 bright purple, and fometimes with two different ihades, lighter 

 and deeper, of a high fragrant fcent, which it retains under cul- 

 ture. It flowers in July. 



147. Sweet-fcented Butterfly-Orchis, or Satyr ion (ij. In mountain- 

 ous meadows, frequent. The flowers are white, with a yellowifh 

 tinge ; the fpur an inch, or an inch and a half, long. They are 

 in a thin fpike, and of a grateful fmell. It flowers in June. 



148. There is a VARIETY of it on the borders of mountainous 

 woods, and dry fhady banks, with tall fpikes of bright white 

 odoriferous flowers, and a longer fpur, from an inch and a half 

 to two inches ; the ftalk often a foot and a half high ; the leaves 

 next the ground remarkably large and broad (k). It is not un- 

 irequent on the borders of Ratrifljoiv-vfood, by the way-iide, near 

 the mill. It is alfo frequent on the dry fhadowy banks by the 

 flreamlet below Honeyclugh> near Ghefteriv ood. It retains its beauty 

 and grateful fragrance under culture. It flowers in June and 



July. ";; ' - *>*4 . . 



(i) Tefliculus Candidas, odoratus major. Cord. Hift. ii. c. 29. Tefticulus bifolius ejufd. 

 \. 2. c. 104. Tefliculi fpecies v. Cam. Epit. p. 625. lent. Orchis ferapias primus. Dod. 

 Pempt. p. 237. Coron. p. 219. Icon. bona. Orchis alba calcare longo. I. B, ii. p. 771. 

 Manga. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 495. Raj. Hift. p. 1221. Orchis alba bifolia minor, calcare ob- 

 longo. C, B. Pin. p. 83. Toum. Inft. Vaill. Bot. Paris, p. 151. t. 30. f. 7. Orchis bul- 

 bis indivifis, nectarii labio lanceolate integerrimo, cornu longiflimo, petalis patentibus. Linn. 

 Flo. Suec. n. 723. Ad. Upf. 140. p. 5. Sp. PI. 939. Mat. Med. 411. Orchis radicibu& 

 conicis, labello lingulato fimpliciffimo. Hall. Helv. p. 266. 



(k) Orchis la' ifolia maxima. Cluf. Pann. p. 237. Orchis ampliffima foliis binis fplenden- 

 tibus. /. B. ii. p. 772. Orchis bifolia latiffima. C. B. Pin. p. 82. Raj. Syll. Stirp. ext. 

 p. 191. Tourn, Inft. Orchis amplioribus foliis. Hall. Helv. p. 266} 267. 



148. Small, 



