Pl.end.ph. 21. ORCHIDEiE. U2. Platanthera. 207 



Stem 2 feet high, smooth, 2 or 3-leafed at bottom ; leaves 

 ovate, linear or lanceolate; sfiike long; Jlowers about 12, 

 white, fragrant ; lip green, hanging down, spur awlshape. 



(3. minor. Stem 8 in. high; spur oblong; leaves 2 or 3 



together, narrow ; Jlowers yellow, a month later. 



Orchis alba bifolia minor, cakari oblongo, Eaii Syn. 380, 8. 

 Testiculus psycodes, Get: em, 211, 2. 



Orchis sphegodes, sive Testiculus vulpinus primus, Park. 1351. 

 Gnat sati/rion. Small butterfiy orchis. 



IX. 143. HERMINIUM. R.Brown. Musk-orchis, 



Ovary reclined at the tip ; perigonium rather bellshape, 

 2 inner sepales long, 3-cleft; 3 outer ovate; tip 3-cut, 

 hastate, with a very short baglike spur ; gy?iostenmim very 

 short; cells of the anthers not narrowed below into a small 

 sheath ; retinacle naked, rather large, with a striking snail- 

 like hollow underneath, joined to a short blunt rostellum ; 

 pollen in short, blunt-tailed masses, with only a few nearly 

 cubical vesicles. — Bulbs roundish ; one horizontally remote, 

 peduncled, smaller ; plant light green. 



Herminium monorchis. One-tulercled musk-orchis. 



Radical leaves lanceolate. 



Orchis odorata moschata, sive Monorchis, iJflu S^n. 378, 7. 



Orchis pusilla odorata, Park. 1354, 



Ophrys monorchis, Lin. S, P. 1342. 



Orchis monorchis, Allioni Pedem^ 1882. 



Herminium monorchis, R. Brown in jlit. H. Ktw. 5, 191, 



Yellow sweet orchis. Musk orchis. 



Barren chalky pastures ; perennial ; July. 



Stem 8 in. high; radical leaves 2 or 3 ; spike close, many- 

 flowered ; j^ozfer5 yellowish green; bractece as long as the^ 

 ovary. 



B. Verigonium not galeate; pernle 0; anther stipitate, 

 cells not divided by a septulum ; retinacle ; bursicle 0. 



X. U4. GOODYERA. R.Brown. Goodyer. 



Ovary reclined at the tip; perigonium oblong arched; 

 connivent below, bellying, rather spread out abovej Up 

 included, spurless, undivided, remarkably concavo-gibbous 

 below ; bent into a narrow, grooved strap above ; gynoste- 

 mium very short under the gynizus ; gynizus superficial, 

 circular, rather flat ; rostellum laminated, upright, very 

 blunt; proscolla a short inverted parabola; anther stipitate, 

 marginal behind, roundish, acuminate ; pollen in short 



