30 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Ophrys. 



with a pale blueish, shining, partly cloven, spot in the middle ; 

 otherwise of the colour of the petals, having four broadish, nearly 

 equal, widely spreading, or deflexed, more or less downy, en- 

 tire, marginal lobes, each about as long as the disk. The under 

 side is concave, green, very smooth, without any traces of a 

 spur or keel. There are two shining prominent spots at the 

 base of the lip above. The column is obtuse, not extending be- 

 yond the obovate anther. Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, the ingenious 

 draughtsman of the Flora Grceca, is recorded by Mr. Brown as 

 having first observed the glands which receive the pollen to be 

 contained in two distinct hoods. This confirms the more ob- 

 vious generic character founded on the convex or tumid lip. 

 The larger variety, ^, appears by Buddie's herbarium to differ very 

 slightly from the common sort ; though the figures of old au- 

 thors quoted for it are probably different, as the small inter- 

 mediate point of their lip indicates. 



2. O. ap'ifera. Bee Orchis. 



Lip the length of the calyx, tumid, with five reflexed mar- 

 ginal lobes ; the terminal one awlshaped ; the rest hairy 

 above. Calyx coloured. Column with a hooked point. 



O. apifera. Buds. ed. 1 . 340. ed. 2. 39 1 . FL Br. 938. Engl. Bot. 

 «. 6. f. 383. fVilld.Sp.Pl.v.4.66. Br.in Ait. H. Kew.ed.2. 

 V. 5. 195. Curt. Lond. fasc. 1, t. 66. Shaw Nat. Misc. t. 23. 

 Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 18. 22. 



O. insectifera i. Linn. Sp. PI. 1343. 



Orchis fuciflora, galea at alis purpurascentibus. Raii Syn. 39], 

 Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 766, description ; and O. sive Testiculus sphe- 

 godes hirsute flore, 767. f. 



O. fucum referens major, foliolis superioribus candidis et purpu- 

 rascentibus. Bauh. Pin. 83. Rudb. Elijs. v. 2. 199. f. 7. Vaill. 

 Par. 146. «. 30./. 9. 



O. araneam referens, rostro recurve. Segu. Veron.suppl.2A6. t. 8. 

 f. 2. 



O. sexta. Trag. Hist. 783. f. 



O. minor, violaceis floribus. Cord. Hist. 129./. 



Triorchis foemina. Fuchs. Hist. 560./. 



Satyrium quartum. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 105./. 



S. minus. Sweert Floril. t. 63. f. 5. 



Testiculus vulpinus secundus sphegodes. Lob. Ic. 179. f. Ger. Em. 

 212./ 



In meadows and pastures, in chalky or limestone countries, not 

 very uncommon. 



Perennial. July. 



Herb taller, stouter, and often less glaucous, than the foregoing. 

 Bracteas larger and broader, as well as the foliage. Fl. also 

 larger, and very conspicuous, compared to bees, chiefly from 



