Pl.end.ph. 21. ORCHIDEiE. 138. Orchis. 203 



Chalky pastures ; perennial; June. 



Scape 8 in. high, angular; leaves 4 or 6, lanceolate, 

 not spotted ; spike short, close, many-flowered ; bractea 

 ovate, purple; flowers small, brown, greenish white on the 

 inside; spur blunt, compressed; Up white, with elevated 

 spots. 



7. Orchis mascula. Male orchis. 



Lip 3-lobed, crenulate, obtuse ; middle lobe 2-cut; sepales 

 pointed, 2 inner upright, spread; outer reflexed, 3-ribbed; 

 spur conical, ascending, as long as thegermen. 



Orchis morio luas, foliis tnaciilatis, Raii Syn. 376, 3 ; Park. 1346. 

 Cynosorchis morio mas, Ger. em. 2C8. 

 Orcliis mascula, Lin. S. P. 1333. 



Male fool-stones. 



Woods and pastures; perennial; April and May. 



Root 2-tubercled ; scape 2 feet high ; leaves broad, spotted 

 with dark purple ; hractecc lanceolate, coloured, scarcely 

 as long as the ovary ; flower uniformly coloured ; spitr blunt, 

 horizontal ; lip hanging down, base white with a few purple 

 spots. — Root, as being the most abundant species, is made 

 into salep, by being taken up when the stalks begin to fall, 

 the new tubercles separated, washed, and the outer thin 

 skin taken off: the prepared tubercles are then spread upon 

 a tin plate, and stoved for 8 or 10 minutes in a heat suf- 

 ficient to bake bread ; by which they acquire a semitrans- 

 parency like horn, without much diminution in size. Salep 

 is one of the most nutritive species of food known at pre- 

 sent, and extremely useful in travelling and in sea voyages. 

 It is probable the other species of this genus might be pre- 

 pared in the same manner. 



8. Orchis morio. Fool orchis. 



Lip 3-lobed ; lobes crenate, middle lobe nicked ; sepales 

 ascending, obtuse; spur conical, ascending, shorter than 

 the ovary. 



Orchis morio foetnina, Raii Syn. 311, 4; Park. 1347. 

 Cynosorchis murio foemina, Ger. em. 20S. 

 Orchis morio, Lin. S. P. 1333. 

 Female fool-stones. 



Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May and June. 



Root 2-tubercled; scape 12 in. high; Zeof £5 lanceolate ; 

 spike loose, 12-flowered ; bractece lanceolate, membrana- 

 ceous, coloured ; flowers purple ; sepales blunt ; 3 upper 

 with 3 or 5 greenish ribs ; spur bent, thickened at the; 

 tip J Up dilated, middle lobe spotted. 

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