GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 21 



converging over the green, much narrower, petals. Lip twice as 

 long as the calyx, dependent, linear-oblong, ending in 2 sharp 

 lobes, with a smaller central one ; its disk greenish yellow ; 

 sides mostly brown ; but the colour of the •whol&Jiower is va- 

 riable. Cells of the anther brown, rather distant, with a naked 

 gland at the base of each to receive the pollen-masses, consist- 

 ing of large yellow granulations. 

 C. Bauhin and Rudbeck have noticed this Orchis twice. The Se- 

 rapias hatrachites, Ger. Em. 224./. 8, Orchis batrachoides, Da- 

 lech. Hist. 1560./, must be a distinct species. It is 0. herma- 

 phroditica, Bauh.Pin. 83. Rudb. Elijs. v. 2. 199./. «i. The latter 

 refers to 0. melittias, Ger. Em. 213./, which surely cannot be 

 the same. Systematic writers have not adverted to these syno- 

 nyms, nor does any popular author appear to have met with 

 either of Gerarde's plants. 



*** Knobs of the root palmate. 



12. O. latifoliq. Marsh Palmate Orchis. 



Knobs imperfectly palmate. Lip of the nectary convex, 

 crenate, slightly three-cleft ; spur conical. Bracteas 

 longer than the flowers. Stem hollow. 



O. latifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 1334. ff^Wd. v. 4. 28. Fl. Br. 924. Engl. 



Bot. ZJ.33. t. 2308. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. ^. 65. Hook. Scot.25l. 



Fl. Dan. t. 266. Wahlenb. Lapp. 215. 

 O. n. 1279. Hall. Hist. V.2.U2. t.32.f.2. 

 O. palmata pratensis latifolia, longis calcaribus. Bauh. Pin. 85. 



RaiiSyn.380. Rudb. Eli/s.v.2.2l\.f. I. Vaill. Par. \[^2. t. 31. 



O. palmata pal ustris latifolia. Bauh. Pin. S6. Rudb. Elys. i?. 2. 214, 



/. 12. 

 Palma Christi mas. Ger. Em. 220 /. 

 P. Christi erecta, flore incarnato. Besl. Hort.Eyst. ast. ord. 4. t. 5. 



Palmata non maculata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 77\.j. 



P. sive Serapias palustris latifolia, flore albo subpurpurascente. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 775./. 

 Serapias palustris latifolia. Ger. Em. 222. f. Lob. Ic. 190./. 

 Satyrion latifolium. Sweert. Floril. t. 63./. 7. 

 Cynosorchis palustris platyphylla. Dalech. Hist. 1562./. 

 )3, Orchis palmata palustris tota rubra. Dill, in Ruii Syn. 382. 



Bauh. Pin. 86 ? Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 2 1 6. /. 1 6 ? 

 Palmata floribus impens^ rubris. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777. f. 

 Cynosorchis Dracontias, foliis et floribus impensfe rubris. Lob. Ic. 



191./. 

 In marshes, and moist meadows, abundantly. 

 Perennial. May, June. 



