n.end.ph. ^1. ORCHIDE^. 140. Gymnadenia. 205 



VI. 140. GYMNADENIA. R. Brown. Gymnadenia, 

 Ovary reclined at the tip ; peri;^onium arched ; lip spur- 

 red, 3-CLit; spur linear; gynnstemium very short; roslellumt 

 split; retinacle distinct, naked; gynizus usually surrounding 

 the opening of the spur, crescent-like, dilated at each end 

 forwards. — Bull palmate; leaves radical, slender; spike 

 loose; IraclecB leaflike, lanceolate; Jiouers sweet-scented. 



Gymnadenia conopsea. Gnat gymnadenia. 



Spur twice as long as the ovary. 



Orchis q. Palmala rubella cum longis calcarlbus rubellis, Raii Syri.- 

 .381,21. 



Serapias minor nitente flore, Ger. em, 222. 

 Orchis palmata minor flore rubro, Park. 1358. 

 Orciiis conopsea, Lin. S. P. 1335. 

 Gymnadenia conopsea, M. Brown in Ait. H. Kew. 5. 

 Hed handed -orchis. 



- Meadows; perennial; June. 



Siem 18 in. high; leaves bright green; flowers pale 

 purple, smelling like cloves; lip bluntly 3-lobed, middle 

 segment not nicked; side sepales much spread; spiir bristle- 

 like. 



/3. alba. Flowers white. 



VII. 141. ENTATICUS. Apulejus. Hand-orchis. 

 Oiw?/ reclined at the tip ; perigonium galeate; lip spur- 

 red; spur short; gynostemimn very short; rostellmn ?>\i\\t\ 

 retinacle distinct, naked ; gynizus usually surrounding the 

 opening of the spur, crescentlike, dilated at each end for- 

 wards. — Root fascicled or palmate; stemlea^y; leaves broad; 

 spike close, many-flowered ; Iractecb lanceolate, leaflike. 



1. Entaticus albidus. IVhitish hand-orchis.. 



Spur blunt, one-third the length of the ovary ; lip' 

 .S-parted ; lobes acute, the middle divided. 



Orchis pusilta alba odorata, radice palmala, Raii Siin. 381, 1. 



"Satyrinm albidum, Lin. S. P. 1338. 



Orchis albida, Swarlz in Act. Holm. 1800, 207. 



Orchis parviflora, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 4, 599. 



Habenaria albida, iE. Brown in Ait. II. Kevc. 5, \Q9,. 



Gymnadenia albidii, Richard Mem. Mus. 4,57. 



TVhite han'hd-mmk-orchis. 



Mountainous pastures ; perennial ; June. 



.Bz^ZZ/^ fasciculate, in pairs ; stem 15 in. high; leaves \an- 

 ceolate, oval; upper leaves lanceolate, pointed; Jlowers: 

 small, whitish, sweet scented ; lip green. ^ 



