TPZ HABENANIA. [CLASS XX. ORDER I. 
terminal elongated cylindrical spike of numerous rather lax flowers, 
of an uniform purplish rose colour. Lractea lanceolate, membranous, 
three ribbed, as long as the ovarium. Sepals oblong, spreading, their 
margins revolute. Petals connivent. Lip reflexed, of three nearly 
equal rounded lobes, of an uniform colour, minutely downy on the 
surface. Spur slender, cylindrical, acute at the point, about twice as 
long as the ovarinm, reflexed, and mostly curved upwards. Pollen 
masses naked, crimson. 
Habitat.—Dry pastures and heaths in hilly conntries, especially in 
Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering from June to August. 
The flowers of this species, though not so beautiful or showy as 
many of the others, are far more fragrant—perhaps the most fragrant 
of any of our species. 
GENUS III. HABENA’RIA.—Brown. Habenaria. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHip'Ex. Juss. 
Grn. CHar. Sepals and petals personate, ringent, arched or helmet- 
shaped above, lip spurred at the base. Glands of the stalks of 
the pollen masses naked, distant.—Named from habena, a thong 
or lash ; so called from the resemblance of some of the species to 
a thong or lash of a whip. 
1. H. vi'ridis, Br. (Fig. 13831.) Green Habenaria, or Frog Orchis. 
Lip linear, the apex three toothed, the middle one smallest; spur 
very short, two lobed; bractea three ribbed, lanceolate, longer than 
the flowers; spike elongate, cylindrical ; leaves ovate lanceolate ; 
tubers palmate. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 315.—Peristylus, Blume.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 261.—Satyrium, Linn.—English Botany, t. 
94.—Orchis, Swartz.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 20.—Gymnandenia, 
Richard. 
Tubers palmate. Stem erect, from four to eight inches high, leafy. 
Leaves dark green, smooth and shining, the lower ones ovate, obtuse. 
the upper ones lanceolate. Inflorescence a terminal oblong cylin- 
drical spike of numerous Jax flowers. ractea lanceolate, green, 
leafy, three ribbed, the lower ones much longer than the flowers, the 
upper ones about the same length. Sepals green, mostly with a pink 
margin, ovate, concave, converging with the small green petals into a 
rounded hood. Jip reflexed, linear, oblong, three toothed at the end, 
the middle tooth shorter and smaller than the others, a brownish 
pink yellowish green in the disk. Pollen masses lobate, naked, 
distant. 
Habitat.—Meadows and pastures ; not unfrequent, especially in a 
sandy or gravelly soil. 
