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to WITHERING'S Botany. The leaves are generally spot* 

 ted with black, but we have frequently observed them en- 

 tirely green. The flowers are purple, and are believed to 

 be the " Long-purples" of SHAKSPEARE, with which poor 

 OPHELIA formed her fantastic garlands. 



' There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook, 

 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; 

 Therewith fantastick garlands did she make 

 Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and Long-purples, 

 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 

 But our cold maids do Deadmen's fingers call them." 



* * Knobs of the root palmate. 



3. O. latifolia, stem hollow ; leaves unspotted ; knobs imper- 

 fectly palmate ; lip of the nectary convex, crenate, slightly 3- 

 cleft, spur conical ; bracteas longer than the flowers. Marsh 

 Orchis. 



Hal. Marshes and moist meadows, common. June. If. 



4. O. maculata, knobs palmate, spreading ; lip of the nectary 

 flat, crenate, 3-lobed, spur cylindrical, rather shorter than the 

 germen ; bracteas shorter than the flowers. Spotted Orchis. 



Hab. Meadows and pastures, common. July. If. 



Leaves spotted with black. Flowers pale purple or white, 

 streaked with dark lines. We have examined numerous 

 specimens, and uniformly find the bracteas longer than 

 the germens, green with crimson edges. The anthers are 

 yellowish, as well as the pollen, and, when touched at the 

 base of the filaments, readily separate, and adhere to the 

 needle, as much, perhaps, from their irritability, as from 

 their glutinous quality. 



5. O. conopsea, knobs palmate ; lip of the nectary in 3 entire 

 equal lobes, spur very slender, twice as long as the germen ; 

 calyx widely spreading. Aromatic Orchis. 



Hab. Moist meadows and pastures, not uncommon. " In 

 a marshy field near Edington Moor, Berwickshire," 

 llev. A. Baird. Castle hills, in the field adjoining 

 Spring-gardens. Sea-banks at Hudshead. Longridge 

 dean, &c. July. If. 



The flowers are rather small, of an uniform crimson colour, 

 and exhale a delicious odour, resembling that of a Clove 

 Pink. We have observed the spikes sometimes entirely 

 without flowers, bearing bracteas only. 



