OLASS XX. ORDER I.] ORCHIS. 1103 
English Botany, t. 248.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 470.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 310.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 15d. 
Root tapering, the whole plant clothed with close woolly pu- 
bescence, somewhat glutinous, and intensely bitter. Stem erect, about 
two feet high, branched and spreading, slender. Leaves lanceolate, 
entire, small, decurrent, and forming uninterrupted wings to the 
stem, the radical leaves petiolated, lyrato-pinnatifid, with narrow 
lanceolate segments, toothed or jagged, the terminal one large, 
angular. Flowers terminal, solitary upon the ends of the stem and 
branches. Jnvolucre globose, woolly, the scales on the margin fur: 
nished with slender bristly spines, the upper ones with the terminal 
one elongated into a long compressed channeled spine, often an inch 
in length. /orets yellow, or lemon colour, all tubular, the limb five 
cleft, those of the ray scarcely longer than those of the disk. Recep. 
tacle flat, its scales cut into slender bristle-like segments. Fruit 
obovate, smooth, pale grey, compressed. Pappus of unequal short 
rough hairs. 
Habitat.—Fields and waste places, rare; chiefly.in the East and 
South of England, and near Dublin. 
Annual; flowering from July to September. 
This is a doubtful native plant, having probably been introduced 
with corn or other grain from the Continent, where it grows in great 
abundance. 
CUASS Ne 
GYNAN'DRIA. 
(Stamens situated upon the style or column above the germen). 
ORDER I. 
MONAN’DRIA. 1 STAMEN. 
GENUS I. OR’CHIS.—Linn. Orchis. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHID'’Ex. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals and petals personate, ringent, lip lobed, and 
spurred at the base. Pollen masses with two glands, enclosed in 
a common pouch.—Name “an ancient appellation of the plant.” 
+ Tubers two, undivided. Bractea with one rib. 
a. Lip three lobed, the lateral lobes shorter, or as long as the 
middle one. 
1. O. Mo'rio, Linn. (Fig. 1819.) Green winged Meadow Orchis. 
Lip three lobed, somewhat crenated, the middle lobe emarginate ; 
