CL. XX.] GYNANirRIA - MONANDBJA. 339 



1. G. repens. Creeping Goodyera. Leaves egg-shaped; spike 

 spiral ; lip and petals lance-shaped. - Root creeping : stem about 

 six inches high : spike spiral, the flowers inclining one way, pale- 

 green, with a sweet scent. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in 

 fir woods in the north of Scotland : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. v. 

 pi. 289. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 33. Satyr ium repens. 1250. 



6. NEO'TTIA. LADIES'-TRESSES. 



Calyx superior, of three egg-shaped, converging, permanent, 

 coloured leaves. Petals two, oblong, erect, converging under 

 the upper leaf of the calyx. Nectary spurless, as long as the 

 calyx, prominent, oblong, bluntish, keeled beneath. Anther 

 roundish, parallel to the stigma, of two cells close together. 

 Germen inversely egg-shaped, with three furrows. Style short, 

 thick, cylindrical ; stigma prominent, globose, with two points. 

 Capsule inversely egg-shaped, with three furrows. Seeds very 

 minute. Name neottia, a bird's-nest. 413. 



1. N.spirdlis. Ladies' -tresses. Leaves egg-shaped, stalked ; spike 

 twisted, the flowers pointing one way ; bracteas downy, tumid ; 'lip 

 egg-shaped, entire. - Leaves all radical: stalk about four inches 

 high : flowers small, white, highly fragrant. Perennial : flowers in 

 August and September: grows in pastures and meadows, in various 

 parts of England. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 541. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 35. 

 Ophrys spiralis. 1251. 



2. N. osstivdlis. Summer Ladies' -tresses. Root-leaves between 

 linear and lanceolate, those of the stem narrowly lance- shaped ; 

 spike loose, twisted. - Root of elongated cylindrical tubers. Pe- 

 rennial : flowers in July and August : discovered by Messrs. Babing- 

 ton and Christy in marshy ground in Jersey. Near London. Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl. pi. 2817. Brit. Fl. 4th ed. p. 318. Prim. Fl. Sarn. p. 93. 1252. 



3. N. gemmipara. Proliferous Ladies' -tresses. Leaves lanceolate, 

 as tall as the stalk ; spike three-ranked, twisted; bracteas smooth. 

 - Root of two slender fleshy elongated tubers : leaves erect, 

 acute, three-ribbed : spike egg-shaped, dense, of about eighteen 

 white flowers. Perennial : flowers in July : said to have been found 

 by Mr. Drummond, on the north side of Bantry Bay, Ireland. Eng. 

 But. Suppl. pi. 2786. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 36. 1253. 



7. LISTE'RA. LISTERA. 



Calyx superior, of three egg-shaped, spreading, permanent 

 leaves. Petals two, lance-shaped, spreading, nearly as long as 

 the culyx. Nectaries spurless, much longer than the petals, two- 

 or four-lobed, the disk with a longitudinal central furrow. An- 

 ther oblong, parallel to the stigma, of two close, parallel, linear 

 cells. Germen roundish, angular. Style cylindrical, very short. 

 Stigma of two unequal flat lips, the lower rounded, very short. 

 Capsule oblong, obtuse, ribbed. Seeds minute. Named after 

 Dr. Martin Lister, an English naturalist. 414. 



1. L. ovdta. Common Tway-blade. Leaves elliptical, opposite ; 

 nectary with two linear lobes -- Root of numerous long, cylin- 

 drical, smooth radicles, connected in bundles by one common fibre : 



