206 141. Entaticus. 21. ORCHIDE^. Pl.end.pL 

 i3. major. Spike dense, wliitish. 



Orcliis palraata, thyrso specioso longo, dense stipato, ex viridi albente, 



Dilkn in Rail Syn. 882,2 i. 



9. Enlaficus viridU. Greeii hand-orchis. 



Spur short, purselike; Up linear, 3 -toothed; side lohes 



pointed ; iniddle lobe very short ; bractece half as long again 



as the flowers. 



Orchis palmata minor flore lufeo-viridi, Raii Syn. 381,22. 



Serapias batrachytes altera, Ger. em. 224. 



Orchis palmata batrachytes vel myodes, Park. 1358. 



Satyrium viride, Lin. S.P. 1338. 



Orchis viridis, Salisb. Prod. 7. 



Habenaria viridis. Brown in Ait. H. Kew, 5, 191. 



Gymnadenia viridis, Richard Mem. Mus. 4,^7. 



Frog satyrion. Prog orcliis. Green hand-orchis. 



Fields and pastures; perennial; June to August. 



Bulb palmate ; stem 12 in. high, leafy ; leaves lineai-- 

 ovate, upper lanceolate ; spike loose; Jiotvers dull greenish; 

 tipped with brownish purple ; ovary linear-ovate, yellowish 

 green or broAvn. 



VIII. 142. PLATANTHERA. Richard. Fox-stones, 



Perigonium arched ; lip spurred, narrow strap-like, un- 

 divided ; cells of the anther widely distant, narrowed below, 

 and the broad gynizus being placed between them separates 

 them widely apart ; pollen in long-tailed masses ; vesicles 

 very numerous, very minute, linear-prismatic ; retinacle 

 naked, orbiculate, peltate with a very short stalk, not ter- 

 minating the caudicle as usual, but lodged as it were on the 

 side and within ; gynizus appearing as grown to the bottom 

 of the connective, short and rounded, the lower part not 

 going beyond the opening of the spur; 7-ostellum none. — 

 Jiool 2'tuberculate ; leaves radical, 2 or 3 ; flowers white, 

 fragrant; bractece lanceolate. 



Platanthera bifoUa. Two-leaf ed fox-stones. 



Orchis hermaphroditica bifolia, Raii Syn. 380, 17. 

 Orchis hermajjhrodifica, Gcr. em. 211, 1. 

 Orchis serapias bifolia vel trifolia minor, Part. 1350, 

 Orchis bifolia, Lin. S. P. 1331, 

 Orchis alba, Lamarck Fl. Fr. 3, 502. 

 Habenaria bifolia. Brown in /tit. H. Keto. 5, 193. 

 Plalantheni bifolia, Richard Mem. Mus. 4,57, 

 Butterfly satyrion. 



Woods and thickets ; perennial ; May and June. 



