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OPHRYS, (Ophrys.) Lip of the corolla not spurred ; glands 

 at the end of the stalks of the pollen masses, each in a 

 distinct pouch. 



TWAY-BLADE, (Listora.) Lip of the corolla not spurred, 

 two-lobed ; pollen masses not stalked, and without glands. 



ORCHIS. ORCHIS. 

 EARLY PURPLE ORCHIS. Orchis mascula. 



Plate 13, Jiff. 16. 

 Spur of the corolla longer than the germen. 



Common in woods and pastures, where it may be seen 

 flowering as early as the month of May, and sometimes even 

 before, while its purple-spotted and dark green leaves may te 

 found much earlier. The flowers are purple, in a spike one 

 foot high, and often fragrant. The lower lip of the flowers is 

 three-lobed, whitish or spotted. The two side leaves of the 

 calyx bent backwards and upwards. The spur is blunt, and 

 rather larger than the germen, or young seed vessel. Root 

 of two tubers undivided, and the bracts which accompany the 

 flowers are small. 



MARSH ORCHIS. Orchis latifolia. 



Plate 13, fig. 17. 

 Spur longer than the germen. Lip scarcely lobed. 



Scattered over moist meadows, flowering in June. It varies 

 very much in color, has long, upright, green, pointed, but not 

 spotted leaves, with large leafy bracts, much longer than the 

 flowers, and the under lip of the corolla is very little, if at all 

 lobed ; by these marks it may be known at once ; besides 

 which the spur is shorter than the germen, the calyx leaves 

 spread out widely, and the two side petals grow towards each 

 other. 



SPOTTED PALMATE ORCHIS. Orchis maculata. 



Plate 13, fig. 18. 

 Spur longer than the germen. Lip deeply lobed. 



Very much like the last in character, growing in similar 

 places, and flowering at the same time, but known from it by 



