200 136. Aceras. 21. ORCHIDE^. Pl.end.ph. 



II. 136. ACERAS. R. Brown. Jceras. 

 Perigonium galeate ; inner sepales narrow ; Up flat, pen- 

 dulous, long, linear, S-parted, middle lobe 2-cut; gymnos- 

 temium very short ; retinacle I , bursiculate. 



Aceras anthropophora. Man aceras^ 



Lip longer than the ovary. 



Orchis anthropophora oreades, Rati Syti. 379, 12. 

 Orchis anthropoplioia oreades fcemina. Park. 1S48. 

 Ophrys anthropophora, Lin. S. P. 1343. 

 Orchis anthropopliora, Allioni Pedem. 1835. 

 Aceras anthroj)ophora, Brown in Ait. II. Kew. '19. 

 Loroglossum anthropophorum, Rickard Mem, Mus. 4, 54. 

 Green man-orchis. 



Chalky pastures ; perennial ; Jnne. 



Scape 18 in. high; spike many-flowered; Iractea mem- 

 branaceous; Jiowers greenish purple. 



III. 137. ANACAMPTIS. Richard. Anacamptis. 



Perigonium arched, or galeate ; Up spurred, spread, claw 

 with 2 scales on the middle ; gymnostemium very short ; 

 retinacle 1, bursiculate, the fore part grown together by the 

 sides into a cylinder. 



Anacamptis pyramidaUs. Pyramidal anacamptis. 



Spur threadshape, as long as the ovary; spike dense, 

 pblong. 



Orchis purpurea spica congesta pyramidalis, Rail Syn. 311, 6. 



Orchis pyramidalis, Lin. S. P. 1332. 



Anacamptis pyramidalis, Richard Mem. Mus. 4, 55. 



Purple lale-Jlowcrsd orchis. 



Dry chalky pastures; perennial; June and July. 



Scape 18 in. high; leaves not spotted; spike pyramidal, 

 close, many-flowered, afterwards long ; Iractea colouredj as 

 long as the ovary; jiowers purplish or white. 



IV. 138. ORCHIS. Theophrastus.. Orchis. 



Perigonium arched, or galeate ; Up spurred, spread ; 

 gijnostemium very short; gynizus entirely behind the orifice 

 of the spur ; rostellum prominent below, never before ; 

 Inrsicle undivided, 2-celled within; anther longer than the 

 gynostemium, upright, roundish-ovoid or inverse-ovate, not 

 pointed at the tip; retinacles short-elliptic. 



