344 CLASS XX. ORDER I. 



oblong, many flowered. Petals all contiguous, pale, purple, the 

 three outer ones ovate, concave, entire; the two inner ones ovate, 

 unguiculate, cut or fringed on the whole of their sides, but scarcely 

 so at the ends. Lip deeper purple, more than twice the length 

 of the petals, being sometimes nearly an inch long, divided into 

 three segments, the two lateral ones cuneiform, cut and fringed 

 to the middle or farther, the middle one twice as large, flabelli- 

 form, cut and fringed to the middle, but not emarginate, the fim- 

 briae oa each side the middle converging in front of the lip. Up- 

 per lip with a notch between the two anthers. — Found at Lan- 

 caster, Leominster, Deerfield, &c. Abundant in Enfield, New 

 Hampshire. At Ipswich, Mr. Oakes ; at Newton, Mr. Hag- 

 gerston. 



This plant is perhaps the largest and most beautiful of all the 

 species of Orchis. The spike sometimes consists of a few large 

 flowers, but in favorable situations it is five or six inches long 

 and three in thickness. The flowers are more than twice the 

 size of O . fimbriata, paler, and very different in the form of the 

 lip, which has a very large middle segment with a part of its 

 fringe always bent inwards. Its lower leaves also are very ob- 

 tuse. It differs also from O. incisa, which is a small flowering 

 species, and from O. Jissa, with large cleft flowers, of which I 

 have specimens from the Alleghany mountains. 



Orchis spectabilis. Willd. Shewy Orchis. 



Lip obovate, undivided, crenate, retuse ; petals 

 straight, the lateral ones longer; spur clavate, shorter 

 than the germ ; bractes longer than the flower ; stem 

 leafless. 



A low species with large, fine flowers. Root fascicled. Leaves 

 radical, large, oval. Stem half a foot high, very acute angled. 

 Bractes lanceolate. Flowers few and among the largest of the 

 genus. Petals converging, ovate-lanceolate, purple. Lip of the 

 nectary whitish, ovate, crenate or repand, as long as the spur. 

 Spur shorter than the germ, large, white. — Woods, Vermont and 

 New Hampshire. — June. 



