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CLASS XX. GYNANDRIA. Stamens situated upon 

 the style or colmmi, above the germen. 



ORD. I. MONANDRIA. 1 Stamen. {All belong to the 

 Nat. Ord. Orchide^.)! 



* Anther terminal. Pollen-masses stalked, having a gland at the 



base. 



1. 6rchis. Lip spurred. Glands of the stalks of the pollen- 

 masses contained in a common little pouch Name — an ancient 



appellation of the plant. 



2. Gymnadenia. Glands of the stalks of the pollen-masses 

 naked, approximated — Named from yviMog, naked, and ahnv, a 

 gland, one of the essential characters of this genus. 



3. Habenaria. Lip spurred. Glands of the stalks of the 

 pollen-masses naked, distant. — Named from habena, a tho7ig or 

 lash, which the spur sometimes resembles. 



'I. AcERAS. Lip without a spur. Glands of the stalks of the 

 2}ollen-masses contained in a common little pouch. — Name — a, 

 without, and xsgag, a horn ; in allusion to the absence of a spur. 



5. HER3IINIUM. Lip without a spur. Gla7ids of the stalks 

 of the pollen-masses naked, distinct. — Name probably derived 

 from s^/x/!/, k^/j.ivoc, fulcrum tori, in allusion either to the thick, 

 though short, column of the flower, or to the stem or scape of 

 the flowers. 



6. Ophrys. Lip without a spur. Glands of the stalks of the 

 pollen-masses each in a distinct little pouch. — Name — o^povg, the 

 eye-brow, which Pliny says this plant was used to blacken. — 

 The flowers of all the species are beautiful and curious, and 

 more or less aptly resemble certain insects. 



** Anther parallel with the stigma. Pollen-masses farinaceous, or 

 composed of angular grains, not stalked. 



7. GooDYERA. The 2 lateral calyx-leaves including the gibbous 

 base of the lip which is entire at the extremity. Column free. 



' In this beautiful tribe the British Generahave their rooisoften tuberous; 

 the stems herbaceous ; the leaves striated, sheathing at the base. The flowers 

 have 6 divisions, of which it is convenient, as Sir J. E. Smith has done, if 

 not correct, to call the 3 outer a calyx, though they be often coloured, the 3 

 inner a corolla / of this latter the lower petal (so situated by the twisting of 

 the inferior ^er/ne?;), is mostly larger, differently shaped from the rest and 

 called the lip. The style is represented by a column more or less elongated, 

 %vhich bears the stigma, on which, and frequently at the extremity, the a?ither 

 is fixed. The cells of the anther contain pollen, which is either pulverulent, 

 loosely collected into a mass ; or composed of grains elastically cohering, fixed 

 to a stalk i or of a definite number of waxy masses. — 1 have followed the gene- 

 ral arrangement of Mr Brown, as by far the simplest and best of any I am 

 acquainted with. 



