10 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Orchis. 



of Mr. Brown's Habenaria, which, with all deference to my can- 

 did and learned friend, one of the few who seek truth for its own 

 sake, seems to me an unnatural division of the genus Orchis. 

 Willdenow's Habenaria is of no account whatever, being found- 

 ed merely on the presence of 2 abortive filaments, which he hap- 

 pened to observe in some species, and which are proper, more 

 or less evidently, to the whole natural order, though never duly 

 understood till Mr. Brown pointed them out. 

 O. bifolia exhales, in an evening, the scent of the sweetest honey- 

 suckle. jS differs merely in its smaller size. The figure in 

 Vaillant, and several of the above synonyms, answer equally 

 well to either variety. 



2. O. pyramidalis. Pyramidal Orchis. 



Knobs of the root oval. Lip of the nectary in three equal 

 entire lobes, with two protuberances above ; spur long 

 and slender. 



O. pyramidalis. Linn. Sp. PI. ] 332. Willd.v.4.14. Fl.Br.9i9. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. f, 1 10. Hook. Scot. 251 . Lond. t. 106. Jacq. 



Austr. i.266. 

 O. n. 1286. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 146. t. 35./. I. 

 O. purpurea, spica congesta pyramidali. Rail Syn. 377- t.\8. 



Segu. Veron. v. 2. 129. t. 15./. 11. 

 O. parvo flore rubro, sive phoeniceo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 764./. 

 O. militaris montana, spica rubente conglomerata. Tourn.Inst.432. 



Vaill. Par. la\.t.3l.f. 33. 

 O. foemina major. Fuchs. Hist. ^>56.f. 

 O. foemina angustifolia. Fiichs. Ic. 318./. 

 Cynosorchis latifolia, spica compacta. Bauh. Pin, 81. Rudb. Elys. 



V.2. 186./. 3. 

 C. major. Ger. Em. 205./. Dalech. Hist. 1556./. 

 C. nostra major. Lob. Ic. 173./. 

 C. tertia. Dod. Pempt. 235. f. 



On grassy hills or banks, especially where tlie soil is chalky. 



Perennial. July. 



Knobs without any taper point. Herb of a bright unspotted green, 

 with a silky gloss. Stem more leafy that the foregoing. Leaves 

 lanceolate, channelled, acute. Spike of a dense pyramidal form, 

 subsequently obtuse, all over of a rich crimson, occasionally milk 

 white and peculiarly delicate, which variety Haller appears never 

 to have seen. The lobes of the lip are very rarely not quite en- 

 tire ; spur slender, about the length of the slender, smooth and 

 even germen. Cells of the anther close together. Two protu- 

 berances near the origin of the lip, in front, hollow underneath, 

 are the essential mark of this elegant species. The flowers are 

 more or less fragrant, even in the day-time. 



