GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Oplirys. 29 



yet Linnaeus cannot be excused for considering them as 

 mere varieties. 



1. O. muscifera. Fly Orchis. 



Lip twice as long as the calyx, with four expanded lobes, 

 somewhat downy; the disk polished. Petals linear. 

 Column obtuse. 



O. muscifera. Huds. cd. 1. 340. ed. 2. 391. Fl. Br. 937. Comp. ed. 



4.143. Engl. BoLv.\.t.64. Br. in Ait. B. Kcw. ed.2. v. b. 



196. Hook. Lond. i. 31. Dicks. H. Sicc.faic. 15. 15. Davies 



Welsh Botanol. 83. 



O. insectifera a, myodes. Linn. Sp. PI. 1343. Giinn. Norveg. p. 2. 



121./. 5./. 1,2. 

 O. myodes, Sw. Orch. 45. JVilld. Sp. PI. v. 4. 64. Jacq. Misc. v. 2. 

 373. Ic. Rar. t. \84. FL Dan. <. 1398. Andr. Repos. t.47\. 

 Forst.Tojibr.] 00. 

 Cypripedium. Linn. It. Oeland. 44. 

 Orchis muscaria. Scop. Carn.v.2. 193. 

 O.n. 1265. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 133. L 24./. 2. 

 O. myodes. Ger.Em.3\3.f. 

 O. myodes, galea et alis herbidis. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 7G7. /. Raii 



Syn. 379. 

 O. myodes prima, floribus muscam exprimens. Loh. Ic 181./. 

 O. muscae corpus referens minor, vel galea et alis herbidis. Bauh. 

 Pin. 83. Rudb.Elys.v.2.20\.f.\]. Vaill.Par. 147. t.31./. 17, 

 18. 

 O. serapias tertius. Dod. Pempt. 238./. Dalech. Hist. 1555./. 

 Vulpinus testiculus. Lob. Obs. 91./. 1 only. 

 /3. Orchis myodes major. Raii Syn. 379. 

 O. muscam referens major. Bauh. Pin. 83 ? Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 201 . 



/. 10? 

 In chalky pastures, or in meadows among calcareous rocks spa- 

 ringly, or much dispersed. 

 In Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk. Ray. Kent plentifully. 

 Huds. About Roche Abbey, Yorkshire. Mr. Salt. About Mat- 

 lock bath, Derbyshire ; also near Bristol j and in several parts 

 of Berkshire, as well as Norfolk. 

 Perennial. June. 



This is one of the most distinct species. Its habit is more slender 

 than the rest, and the leaves narrower, a little glaucous. Stem 

 somewhat leafy, usually about a foot high. Fl. about six, more 

 or less, rather distant, sessile, each with a lanceolate sheathing 

 bractea, longer than the germen. They strikingly resemble some 

 sort of fly, yet not any one in particular. Cal. widely spread- 

 ing, green, broadly ovate, smooth. Pet. ascending, linear, very 

 narrow, chocolate-coloured, downy, as long as the calyx. Lip 

 twice that length, dependent ; its disk convex, smooth, marked 



