1116 OPHRYS. [CLASS XX. ORDER I 
middle one much longer, tumid, but not spurred at the base. Glands 
of the stalks of the pollen masses naked, separate, distinct. Pollen 
masses sub-globose, on short stalks. 
Habitat.—Chalky pastures, chiefly in the South and South-East of 
England. 
Perennial; flowering in June and July. 
GENUS VI. O'PHRYS—Liyy. Ophrys, or Insect Orchis. 
Nat. Ord. Orncuip'Ex. Juss. 
Gren. Cuar. Sepals spreading, coloured, or herbaceous. Petals 
much smaller than the sepals, and mostly coloured, lip without a 
spur, convex, more or less lobed Glands of the stalks of the 
pollen masses in separate pouches, each mass deeply divided into 
numerous angular lobes.—Name o$¢us, the eye-brow ; this plant, 
according to Pliny having been used to blacken the eye-brows. 
1. O. apif'era, Huds (Fig. 1337.) Bee Orchis. Lip roundish ovate- 
tumid, convex, velvety, variegated, five lobed, the two posterior lobes 
gibbous, ovate, the three anterior, recurved, the intermediate one 
trifid, terminating in a smooth awl-shaped point, inflexed; petals 
short, hairy ; cells of the pollen mass elongated into a hooked point. 
English Botany, t. 383.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 30—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 316.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 262. 
Tubers globose. Stem erect, about a foot high, a smooth somewhat 
glaucous green. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, keeled, numerously ribbed, 
those of the stem with a tapering point. Inflorescence a terminal lax 
spike of few flowers. Bvactea large, lanceolate, herbaceous. Sepals 
a pale purplish green or white, oblong, spreading, concave, three 
ribbed, the keel green. Petals small, oblong, green, hairy on the 
inner surface, spreading. Lip large, tumid, ovate, as long or longer 
than the sepals, clothed externally with dark rich glossy brown velvety 
pubescence, variegated with a yellow disk, and angular, or curved 
lines and spots, the margin five lobed, the two on each side at the 
base ovate, and mostly swollen into a conical or gibbous protuberance, 
velvety, the three others recurved, the lateral ones large, the margin 
waved unequally, the intermediate one small, smooth, somewhat 
glandular, three lobed, the terminal one small, awl-shaped. Pouches 
of the pollen masses terminated in an incurved point. Pollen masses 
sub-globose, on long stalks. Ovarium oblong, ribbed, on a short 
footstalk. 
Habitat—Meadows and pastures in chalky or limestone countries 
in various parts of England, but rare. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
This, the largest and most beautiful of our insect Orchises, is ex- 
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