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as long as the germen, sep. converging into an ovate-lanceolate 

 hood including the pet., bracts minute. E. B. S. 2675. R. xiii. 

 876. Smaller than the preceding. Helmet ash-coloured or pale 

 purple. Lip purple, white in the middle with raised rough red 

 spots, with a linear space between the pairs of lobes, and its 

 term, lobes broad. Chalky hills. Berks., Oxf., Bucks, Herts. 

 P. V. E. 



5. O. Sim'ia (Lam.) ; lobes of Up all long narrow I -veined 

 linear with an interm. setaceous tooth, spur J as long as the ger- 

 men, sep. converging into an ovate-lanceolate hood including 

 the pet., bracts minute. O. tephrosanthos E. B. 1873. R. xiii. 

 373. More slender than the preceding. Helmet dark purplish. 

 Lip with remarkably slender segments, dark purple, with or with- 

 out small rough raised points ; a linear space between the pairs 

 of lobes which are about equal in size. Chalky hills in Berks., 

 Oxf., and Kent. P. V. E. 



6. O.ustuldta (L.) ; lobes of. lip linear-oblong, spur f the 

 length of the germen, sep. converging into a roundish hood in- 

 cluding the pet., bracts long.E. B. 18. R. xiii. 368. St. 46 

 in. high. L. lanceolate, acute. Spike oblong, dense, dark at 

 top, nearly white below. Fl. small, many. Helmet dark purple. 

 Pet. linear-lanceolate, blunt. Lip white with purple spots. 

 Calcareous hills. P. VI. E. 



ft Bracts with 3 or more veins, root-knobs undivided. 



[0. laxiftora (Lam.) ; lip 3-lobed, lateral lobes rounded and 

 crenulate in front longer than the truncate slightly emarginate 

 interm. lobe, spur shorter than the germen cylindrical, 2 lateral 

 sep.reflexed upwards, pet. converging, anth. obcordate apiculate. 

 -E. B. S. 2828. R. xiii. 393. St. 12 feet high, round, an- 

 gular and rough upwards. L. lanceolate or linear- lanceolate. 

 Bracts 3 5-veined. Spike long, lax. Fl. bright purple. Some 

 specimens approach O. palmtris. Wet meadows and bogs in 

 Jersey and Guernsey. P. V. VI.] 



ttt Bracts with 3 or more veins, root-knobs palmate. 



7. 0. maculdta (L.) ; lip 3-lobed flat crenate, spur subulate 

 shorter than the ger men, three sep, patent ^Qi. converging, st. solid, 

 1. lanceolate-obovate. E. B. 632. R. xiii. 407. St. about a foot 

 high. L. usually spotted with purple ; lower blunt or rarely 

 acute, broadest towards their top ; upper linear-lanceolate, re- 

 sembling the bracts. Spike ovate, afterwards elongate ; lower 

 bracts exceeding the germen, upper equalling it, Fl. pale purple, 



