1106 ORCHIS. [CLASS XX. ORDER Is 
* Tubers two, undivided. Bractea with one rib. 
* 4. O. fus'cus, Jacq. (Fig. 1322.) Great Brown-winged Orehis. 
Lip in three deep crenated lobes, scattered over with dark rough 
elevated points, the lateral lobes linear oblong, obtuse, shorter than 
the middle, large, obcordate, one notched, with a point in the angle; 
spur short, obtuse, reflexed; sepals ovate, acute, connivent, including 
the petals; bractea membranous, much shorter than the twisted 
ovarium ; leaves large, oblong. 
English Flora, p. 13.--Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p 313.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 260.—O. militaris.—English Botany, t. 16. 
Tubers large, oblong. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, leafy 
below, naked above. Leaves large, elliptic oblong, obtuse, or acutely 
pointed, three to six inches long, a bright green, numerously veined 
with parallel veins. Inflorescence a large terminal spike of numerous 
flowers. Bractea small, lanceolate, membranous, about one-fourth 
the length of the twisted ovarium, single ribbed. Sepals ovate, acute, 
a dark greenish purple, numerously veined and spotted, curved over 
the rest of the flower like a hood, including the petals. Jip large, 
reflexed, pale pink, more or less numerously studded with rough 
elevated spots of a deep purple colour, deeply cut into three lobes, the 
lateral ones narrow, linear, obtuse, much shorter than the middle 
broad obcordate one, which is notched in the midde with a tooth in 
the sinus. Spur short, obtuse, reflexed, about half as long as the 
ovarium. Cells of the pollen masses close together. 
Habitat.—Chalky pastures and borders of woods in Kent. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
This is the largest and most striking looking of all our Orchises, 
often growing above two feet high, with a spike of its large beautiful 
spotted flowers sometimes four inches long. The flowers exhale a 
strong peculiar odour, and the whole plant, when drying, and indeed 
for some time after, have the strong smell of the same kind as the 
Asperula oderata, or Anthoxanthum odoratum, which is depending 
upon the presence of Benzoic acid. 
This very beautiful species of Orchis is much more common in the 
South of Italy than with us, growing to great perfection, and no 
mean ornament to the groves and shady pastures towards the end of 
April. 
5. O. Milita'ris, Linn. (Fig. 1323.) Military Orchis. Lip in three 
deep lobes, scattered over with dark rough elevated points, the lateral 
lobes linear oblong, shorter than the middle dilated one, deeply cut 
with a point in the angle, the lobes divaricating, crenated at the end ; 
spur reflexed, about half as long as the twisted ovarium ; sepals ovate, 
taper pointed, connivent, including the petals ; bractea membranous, 
much shorter than the ovarium ; leaves oblong. 
