124 SWARZ'ON THE GENERA OP ORCHIDEJE, 



neous, as he took for this part, that blunted point 

 which in orchis is found projecting beneath the 

 cells of the anther, and above the real stigma. In 

 cases of entire deficiency of this projecting point (as 

 in Ophrys, Sec.) he made use of the expression stigma 

 obsoletum, &c. Kolreuter imagined the whole 

 inner surface of the cells of orchis, containing the 

 pollen-masses, to be the stigma which absorbed the 

 fructifying substance, by which means it was con- 

 ducted to the ovarium ; but this theory is not 

 better grounded than that of Linnaeus. — Sprengel 

 and Schkuhr* have certainly hit upon the 

 right part.** It is distinctly to be 9een in Orchis 

 below the anther, and behind the opening into the 

 spur; as also in Ophrys, though the spur be wanting 

 in this genus. In Disait is spherical, and situated 

 at the base of the style ; in E'pipactis at the end of 

 the style, facing the anther j in Satyrium (Thunb.J 

 above; and in Corycium behind it. Neottia and 

 Diuris have it upon the front of the style towards 



* Sprf.nce l s entdecktes Gchcimni3s der Natur, &c. p. 401. 

 ** IT a l l e r und C»anu mentiow it in several species described by 

 them under the name of pectus unguentarium, or fovea unguinosa. 



