316 GYNANDItlA MONANDRIA. [Ophrys. 



Moist copses, pastures and dry heaths, froquent. Fl. June. 1^ 

 — Reichenbach in his Icono;//: Hot. t. 851, 8j2, and 853, figures 3 

 states of this plant; dirt'eriii<j, besides in otlier minor points, 1. in the 

 anther-cells being close and parallel (his Plutanthera bifulia) : 2. in the 

 anther-cells moderately diverging at the base, and there having a cur- 

 vature upward [P. hrachyglussa. Wall)-.): 3. with the anther-cells re- 

 markably diverging at the base, and there having a curvature downward 

 (P. chlorantha. Cuss.). The Botanists who have particularly studied 

 our British species, are Dr Lindley and Mr Babington. The former 

 refers the bifolia and brach/glossa, Reich, to the real bifoUu, L. The 

 latter considers the brachyglossa alone to be the Linnsean bifolia, and 

 the bifolia of Reich, to be a new species. With regard to chlorantha, 

 this has now been very generally adopted as a species, and the bifolia 

 oi E. Bot. and of Fl. Lond. unhesitatingly referred to it. Yet who- 

 ever will be at the trouijle of comparing these figures, may see at once 

 that the chlorantha of Reich, is as different from that of Smith and 

 Curtis, as the brachyglossa is from them. In short, that the true chlo- 

 rantha is an extreme state, with unusually diverging anther-cases, flowers 

 as green as the leaves, and quite sharp petals; such as, I confess, I have 

 not seen in this country. If, then, it be right to make three species out 

 of the Linntean bifolia, we must, to be consistent, make four. I think 

 it more in accordance with what we know of the liability to vary in the 

 flowers of the Orchidece, to consider all four as forms of one and the same 

 species. 



4. AcERAS. Br. Man-Orchis. 

 1. A. aiithropophora, Br. {cjreen 3Ia7i- Orchis); lip longer than 

 tlie gernien. — Ophrys, L. — E. Bot. t. 29. 



Dry chalky or clayey jwistures, in Surrey, Kent, Norfolk, and Suf- 

 folk. Fl. June. ■y. — Tubers o\d.te. ^^^em about a foot high. Flowers 

 in a long spike. Lip trijjartite, with linear segments, yellowish, with a 

 red or brown margin, the middle lobe rather broad, deeply bifid. Helmet 

 green, coiuposed of the 3 connivent, concave calyx- leaves, including the 

 2 small, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, lateral petals. Mr Wilson has ob- 

 served a monstrous state with the petals partly changed into anthers, one 

 edge becoming pouched, sometimes both containing masses of pollen : 

 at variance with Dr Lindley, v. Intr. to the Nat. System. 



5. Hekminium. Br. Musk-Orcliis. 

 1. H. monorchis, Br. (^green 31 usk- Orchis); radical leaves 2 



lanceolate. Hook, in FL Lond. N. S. 1. 138 Ophrys, L. E. 



Bot. t. 71. 



Chalky pastures, principally in the east and south-east of England. 

 Fl. June, July. 1^. — I'ubers 2, very unequal. Plant 4—6 inches high, 

 slender ; with two lanceolato-oblong leaves at the base, and a small one 

 on the stem, or scajje. Flowers small, green. Perianth bent down from 

 the top of t!-.e erect germen. Cal. of 3 equal, ovate leaves, shorter than 

 the corolla. Lateral /le^a/s ovate, acuminate, undivided ; lower one or to, 

 .3-fid, the two side-lobes rather small, intermediate one nuich longer, 

 linear. Pollen-mass on a short footstalk, with a large white gland. 



6. Ophrys. Liim. Ophrys. 

 1. O. apt/era, Huds. (Bee Ophrys); lip tumid triHd and re- 

 flexed at the extremity, the intermediate lobe trifid, its middle 



