1104 ORCHIS. [CLASS XX. ORDER 1. 
sepals ascending, obtuse, many ribbed, greenish, and with the petals 
connivent; spur sub-clavate, horizontal, or ascending, about as long 
as the ovarium. 
English Botany, t. 2059.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 11—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 313.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 260. 
Tubers two, globose, one (the new tuber for the next year’s plant) 
mostly attached to the old one by a short stalk. Stem from four to 
twelve inches high, clothed with leafy sheaths. Leaves oblong, 
lanceolate, a somewhat glaucous green, numerously ribbed. Jnflo- 
rescence a terminal lax spike of few flowers. Bracteas lanceolate, 
membranous, single, or sometimes at the base three ribbed, somewhat 
purple, as long as the ovarium. Sepals ovate, obtuse, pale, with 
numerous green ribs enclosing the petals, and with them forming a 
kind of helmet over the rest of the flower. Jip rather large, broad, 
reflexed, three lobed, the lateral lobes crenated on the margin, the 
middle one emarginate, purple, pale in the middle, with purple spots. 
Spur cylindrical, obtuse, or sub-clavate, about as long as the ovarium, 
curved upwards. 
Habitat.—Meadows and pastures ; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 
The lax spikes of flowers, the reflexed lip with its pale spotted disk 
and pale obtuse many ribbed connivent sepals, readily distinguish 
this from the other species of our orchises. 
3. O. mas'cula, Linn. (Fig. 1320.) Karly Purple Orchis. Lip 
deeply three lobed, somewhat crenated, the middle lobe emarginate, 
the base downy ; sepals ovate oblong, obtuse or acuminate, the lateral 
ones three ribbed, at length reflexed; spur cylindrical, obtuse, hori- 
zontal, or ascending, as long as the ovarium. 
English Botany, t. 631.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 11-—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 313.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 260. 
Tubers large, globose. Stem erect, from twelve to eighteen inches 
high, partly clothed with leavy sheaths. Leaves radical, mostly 
marked with dark purple spots, elliptic lanceolate, smooth, shining, a 
fine green above, paler beneath. Inflorescence a terminal obléng lax 
spike of numerous purple somewhat fragrant flowers. Bracteas 
membranous, single nerved, as long as the ovarium. Sepals ovate 
oblong, obtuse, acute, or acuminated at the point. Lip large, deeply 
three lobed, downy at the base, the lateral lobes mostly unequally 
crenated, the middle one notched, and often with a tooth in the angle 
of the notch. Spur cylindrical, obtuse, horizontal, or ascending, 
about as long as the ovarium, the sepals and petals are converged 
together, and form a kind of hood. Cells of the pollen masses close 
together, pollen masses yellow. 
Habitat.—Groves, pastures, and meadows ; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in April and May. 
