ORCMIDACEiE. 97 



Tlootknobs the size of a black currant to that of a cherry. Stem 4 

 to 15 inches hia:h. Leaves 1|- to 3 inches long, rather narrow and 

 recurved. Spike 1 to 3 inches long; the flowers more distant than 

 in any of the preceding. Helmet about f mch long, and the spur 

 about 1 inch. Flowers dark crimson-purple, with the sepals more or 

 less distinctly marked with greenish lines j rarely the flowers are 

 flesh-coloured or white. 



Green-icinged Meadow Orchis. 



French, Orchis Bouffon. German, Gemeines KnahenJcraut, 



Section II.— ANDRORCHIS. Reich, fil. 



Lateral sepals more or less spreading or reflexed, not connivent in a 

 helmet. 



SPECIES Vin.— ORCHIS MASCULA. Linn. 



Plate MCCCCLV. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIH. Tab. CCCXC. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2246. 



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

 oblanceolate or strapshaped-oblanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse, generally 

 spotted with purplish-black. Flowers in a rather lax blunt spike. 

 Bracts about as long as the ovary, scarious, coloui'ed, 1-nerved. Lateral 

 sepals at first spreading, at length reflexed, the upper sepal and the 

 petals connivent, all of them acute or obtuse or acuminate, purplish- 

 crimson; labellum about as broad as long, with the sides more or 

 less reflexed, crimson-purple, paler at the base and spotted with darker 

 purple, 3-lobed ; the middle lobe a Uttle longer than the lateral lobes, 

 and about equal to them in length, emarginate or notched, and more 

 or less crenulate; spur broadly cylindrical, nearly straight or incurved, 

 truncate or obtuse, ascending or horizontal, about as long as the 

 ovary. 



In pastures and open places in woods and by their borders. 

 Common, and universally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, early 

 Summer. 



Rootknobs from the size of a hazel nut to that of a small walnut. 

 Leaves 3 to 9 inches long, sometimes wholly green, but more com- 

 mony with round spots of very dark purple, almost black. Stem 8 

 inches to 2 feet high. Spike 2 to 6 inches long. Sepals nearly h inch 

 long, generally acute, but sometimes obtuse, and sometimes acuminate 



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