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neath the anther in front, obsolete. Caps, elliptic-oblong, 

 with 3 or 6 ribs. Seeds numerous, iitiinute, each with a 

 lax chaffy tunic. 

 Roots somewhat bulbous, with inferior radicles. Leaves 

 ovate, or lanceolate, mostly radical. Flo'wer-stalk cen- 

 tral, angular. Fl. clustered, small, greenish. 



1. M.. paludosa. Least Bog-orchis. 



Leaves about four, spatulate ; rough at the tip. Stalk with 



five angles. Lip entire, concave, erect, acute, half the 



length of the calyx. 

 M. paludosa. Sw. in Stockh. Trans, for 1789. 127. t. 6./. 2. Willd. 



Sp. PL «. 4. 91. Fl. Br. 940, Engl. Bot. vA.t. 72. Forst.Tonbr. 



101. Hook. Scot. 255. 

 Ophrys paludosa. Linn. Sp. PI. 1341 . Fl. Suae. ed. 2.316. Rose 



Elem. app. 450. t. 2./. 3. Huds. 3S9. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc.7. 16. 



Fl.Dan. t. 1234. Ehrh. Phytoph. 16. 

 O. palustiis. Huds. ed. 1 . 339. 



Opiiris bifolia palustris nostras. Pluk. Phijt. t. 247./. 2. 

 O. bifolia minor palustris. Pluk. Almag. 270. 

 Orchis minima bulbosa, D.Preston. RaiiHist.v.Z.5S7 . Dill. 



in Rail Stjn.378. 

 Jiifolium palustre. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 243. ed. 3. 385. 



In spongy turfy bogs. 



Near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; also between Hatfield and St. 

 Albans, and in Romney marsh. Ray. At Hurst hill. Ton- 

 bridge wells ; Dubois. Dill. Not found there by Mr. Forster. 

 On Felthorpe bogs, to the north of Norwich. Mr. Charles Bry- 

 ant. Near Potton, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. Durham. 

 Rev. Mr. Harriman. 



Perennial. July. 



Root bulbous, sheathed, increasing by offsets, often stalked, and 

 throwing out radicles from the base. Herb the smallest of our 

 native Orchidece, and probably of the whole tribe. Leaves 3 or 4, 

 ovate, or obovate, various in length, rather glaucous, almost 

 upright, obtuse, roughish about the extremity, often somewhat 

 fringed, so that this plant may perhaps have given rise to the 

 report of a hairy-leaved Orchis, in Lob. Zc. 186. Ger. Em. 219, 

 and Bauh. Pin. 84 ; somewhat caricatured in Rudb. Elys. v. 2, 

 207./. 2. Stalk from 2 to 4 inches high, angular, smooth, bear- 

 ing a dense cluster of very small, pale green, reversed flowers, 

 the upper leaf of the calyx being turned downward, the 2 others, 

 with the small entire lip, upward. Pet. reflexed. Caps, almost 

 globular. Bracteas lanceolate, small, membranous. 



I had once taken Plukenefs figure for ikf. Lceselii, see Engl. Bot. 



