1108 ORCHIS. [CLASS XX. ORDER I. 
middle one, which is deeply divided into two narrow spreading seg- 
ments, with a tooth in the angle. Spur short, obtuse, reflexed. 
Habitat —Chalk hills in Berks, Oxfordshire, and Kent. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
This species is distinguished from the two last by the very narrow 
segments of the lip, and the whole plant being more slender and 
delicate in its appearance. In the name we have followed Lindley, 
who considers it quite a distinct species, and peculiar to Britain. We 
have, however, much doubt as to its being so: a species which we 
have always considered the same as ours grows very common in 
meadows and shady places about Rome, and is not unfrequent in 
various parts of the Continent ; but as we have not been able to com- 
pare fresh specimens, we must for the present leave them as they 
now stand. O. Simia, Lam., we suspect is also the same plant. 
7. O. hirei'na, Scop. (Fig. 1325.) Lizard Orchis. Lip three partite, 
waved at the base, the segments linear, twisted, the lateral ones 
short, the middle one very long, bifid; sepals ovate, acute, veined, 
concave, connivent, including the small petals; spur very short, ob- 
tuse ; ovarium stalked. 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 17.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 
p- 314.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 260.—Satyrium hircinum, Linn. — 
English Botany, t. 34.—Hirnanthoglossum, Spreng. 
Tubers ovate, large. Stem erect, from two to three feet high, 
hollow, leafy. Leaves mostly numerous, elliptic lanceolate, the upper 
ones lanceolate, sessile, a light somewhat glaucous green. IJn/flo- 
rescence a terminal erect lax spike, about a foot long. Practea long, 
linear lanceolate, as long or longer than the flowers. lowers nume- 
rous, a dull purple colour, with a strong unpleasant smell. Sepals 
ovate, acute, a greenish purple, striated, and dotted with green, con- 
cave, connivent, including the small petals of the same colour. Lip 
a dull purple, pale, and dotted at the base, cut into three segments, 
curled, and towards the base waved on the margin, the lateral seg- 
ments short, linear, the middle one very long, narrow, linear, bifid at 
the end. Spur very short, recurved, obtuse, often notched. 
Ovarium twisted, elevated on a footstalk, elliptic, tapering at each end. 
Habitat.—Chalk hills and bushy places, in Kent and Surrey. 
Perennial; flowering in July. 
The flowers of this species are very curiously formed, and in the 
long many flowered spikes have a very remarkable appearance; but 
the odour which they exhale is far from being pleasant, and from its 
being of a similar character to that arising from the goat, it obtained 
its specific name of hircina, or Goat. The long middle segment of 
the lip, and the two lateral short ones, give the flower somewhat the 
appearance of a Lizard, on which account it has obtained the common 
name of Lizard Orchis. It is very common in the month of May in 
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