32 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Ophrys. 



lumn inflexed, acute, but not much elongated beyond the anther, 

 whose cells are near together. 



4. O.fucifera. Drone Orchis. 



Lip longer than the calyx, obovate, hairy, undivided, with 

 a spreading wavy margin. Column bluntly pointed, in- 

 curved. Petals I'oughish ; ovate at the base. 



Orchis fucum referens, Burser, Rudh. Elys. v. 2. 20^./. 25 ; petals 

 too narrow. 



On chalky hillocks and banks. 



In Kent. Mr. E. Barnard, and Mr. T. F. Forster. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Of the size and habit of the last, with which the general aspect of 

 the powers accords, though they are of a somewhat lighter 

 brown, and seldom more than three in each spike. I have had 

 no opportunity of comparing this plant with the 0. aranifera in 

 a fresh state, as it blossoms 6 weeks or 2 months later, but 

 from an examination of the flowers, recent as weil as dried, the 

 following differences are observable. The -petals are minutely 

 downy, or rough, on their inner surface, and are remarkably 

 dilated, or ovate, in their lower half, terminating with an oblong- 

 blunt point. The lip is rather longer than the calyx, obovate, 

 convex, but not tumid or inflated ; the disk brown, smooth ; the 

 sides very hairy ; but the margin itself smooth, thin, pale, ex- 

 panded, not inflexed, wavy, not lobed, nor is there any terminal 

 point or appendage. The column ends in a short, thick, inflexed 

 beak. Each cell of the anther has a dilated, pale, membranous 

 border, though scarcely more considerable than in O. aranifera. 



Rudbeck's figure, taken from a specimen in Burser's herbarium 

 at Upsal, is among those which he has added, as new species, 

 to what C. Bauhin enumerates. This figure is very character- 

 istic, except the petals being too narrow throughout. I can 

 find no traces of this Ophrys in any other writer. 0. arachnites 

 of Scopoli, Willdenow, &c, Haller's Orchis n. 1 266, not hitherto 

 observed in Britain, though common on the continent, is dis- 

 tinguished by an inflexed, flattish, smooth appendage to the 

 very broad Up ; its petals, all over hairy in front, are smooth at 

 the back, and are contracted gradually from the broad base up- 

 ward ; the calyx is green. 0. arachnoides, Andr. Repos. t.470, 

 my supposed variety of 0. apifera, Tour on the Continent, ed. 2. 

 V. 2. 325, if not a species, is rather perhaps a variety of arach- 

 nites, with coloured petals and calyx. Yet the former are downy 

 on both sides, and there is a very peculiar deep central depres- 

 sion on the lip. Haller may have overlooked our three latter 

 species, as varieties of his n. 1266, for they are probably natives 

 of Switzerland. Vaillant, as far as he goes, is the most correct 

 in his figures of Orchidece, as well as in their synonyms. 



