90 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



GENUS II.— O R C H I S. Linn. 



Sepals and lateral petals connivent, or the lateral sepals spreading 

 or turned upwards ; labellum turned downwards, spurred at the base. 

 Anther wholly adnate to the columna ; its 2 cells converging at the 

 base, and each contaming a stalked pollen-mass ; caudicules affixed each 

 to a separate gland, the 2 glands included within a common pouch, or 

 rarely the two masses attached to 1 common gland. Stigma with a 

 rostellate process extending between the bases of the anther-cells. 



Terrestrial herbs, with the root-tubers globular, ovoid, or palmated. 

 Leaves sheathing at the base, those on the stem smaller. Flowers in 

 spikes pointing in all directions. 



Sub-Genus L— HIMANTOGLOSSUM. Spreng. 



Labellum with the middle lobe twisted, coiled in aestivation ; spur 

 very short. PoUen-masses attached to a common gland contained in a 

 pouch. 



SPECIES I.-ORCHIS H IRC IN A. Scop. 



Plate MCCCCXLVni. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. Xm. Tab. CCCLX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2745. 



Him antoglossum tircinum, Spreng. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 795. 



Farlat. Fl. Ital. Vol. III. p. 443. 

 Aceras hircina, Lindl. Orchid, p. 282. Reich. Jil. I.e. p. 5. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. III. p. 283. 

 Loroglossum lurcinum, Rich, in Ann. Mus. Vol. IV. p. 54. Crep. Man. Fl. Belg. 



ed. ii. p. 291. 

 Satjrriiun liii-cinum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 34. 



Rootknobs undivided, ovoid, or subglobular. Leaves oval-oblong, 

 siibobtuse. Flowers on a rather lax spike. Bracts longer than the 

 ovary, scarious, 3- to 5-ribbed. Sepals and lateral petals connivent, 

 pale greenish-olive, indistinctly streaked and spotted with dull purple ; 

 labellum 3-lobed, undulated at the base ; the lateral lobes short, strap- 

 shaped, acute ; the middle lobe very long, much longer than the ovary, 

 spirally coiled in bud, at length undulated and slightly spiral, strap- 

 shaped, truncate and 2- or 3-toothed at the apex, greenish-white, 

 spotted with purple towards the base, pale greenish-olive towards the 

 apex; spur shorter than the sepals and much shorter than the gei'men, 

 conical, very obtuse, slightly decurved. 



