CLASS XX, ORDER I. | HERMINIUM. 1115 
with leafy sheaths above. Leaves oblong lanceolate, or elliptic 
oblong, numerously ribbed. Inflorescence a long terminal cylindrical 
spike of numerous yellowish green flowers. Bractea lanceolate, taper 
pointed, thin, membranous, about as long as the ovarium. Sepals 
green, ovate lanceolate, concave, connivent, three ribbed, forming a 
helmet-shaped hood, including the two small linear lanceolate green 
petals. Lip reflexed, a pale yellowish green, deeply cut into three 
narrow linear segments, the middle lobe deeply cut into two other 
linear segments. Spur wanting. Pollen masses included in a 
common pouch. 
Habitat.—Clay or chalky pastures; in Surrey, Kent, Norfolk, and 
Suffolk. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
The common colour of the flower is an entire pale green, with the 
lip a paler colour, but it is mot uncommon on the Continent to find 
them with the edges of the sepals and lip of a pink or brownish tinge. 
Hooker mentions that “ Mr. Wilson has observed a monstrous state 
with the petals partly changed into anthers, one edge becoming 
pouched, sometimes both containing masses of pollen.” 
GENUS VY. HERMIN’IUM.—Brown. Musk-Orchis. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHID’Ex. JUss. 
Gey. Coan. Sepals and petals herbaceous, spreading, lip short, 
lobed, not spurred, but saccate at the base. Glands of the stalks 
of the pollen masses naked, distinct.— ‘“‘ Name probably derived 
from seuty, eezsvos, fulerwm tori; in allusion either to the thick, 
though short, column of the flower, or to the stem or scape of 
the flowers.’— Hooker. 
1. A. monor'chis, Brown. (Fig. 1336.) Green Musk Orchis. Petals 
small, sub-hastate ; lip rather longer, three lobed; leaves two, lanceo- 
late, radical. 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 27—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 
p. 316.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 262.—Ophrys, Linn.— English Botany, 
parcels 
Tubers two, of very unequal sizes, and as well as the thick fibres 
clothed with woolliness. Stem erect, smooth, from four to six inches 
high, slender. Leaves two, oblong lanceolate, radical, sometimes 
there is a third upon the stem, but much smaller, a smooth bright 
green, obscurely ribbed. Inflorescence a terminal cylindrical spike of 
small green flowers, having a strong smell of musk. Bractea small, 
lanceolate. Sepals three equal ovate concave spreading pieces, rather 
shorter than the petals, which are green, somewhat fleshy, ovate, 
hastate, lip reflexed, three lobed, the lateral lobes short, obtuse, the 
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