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nciitc, not lioodcd at the apex, usually spotted with purplish-black. 

 Bracts equalling or exceeding the lower flowers and sometimes all the 

 flowers, but generally shorter than the upper ones. Sepals dull purplish- 

 crimson; lubellum dull purplish-crimson, paler at tlie base, and spotted 

 and lined with dark purple ; the middle lobe visually not longer than 

 the lateral lobes; spur conical. Seeds with the cells of the testa 

 reticulate. 



In bogs and marshes, especially in peaty soil. Rather common, and 

 generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer, 



0. latifolia comes verj' near 0. incarnata, from which it differs in 

 the lower leaves being usually more spreading, and often spotted with 

 dark jJurple, and especially in their base being narrowed and their 

 apex not hooded. The flowers are rather smaller, darker, and redder. 



A form of this, 3 feet high, is cultivated imder the name 0. macu- 

 lata-superba. 



Broad-leaved Marsh Orchis. 



French, Orchis a larges feuilles. German, Breitbldttriges Knabenkraut. 



SPECIES XL— ORCHIS MACULATA. Linn. 



Plate MCCCCLIX. 



Tieich. Ic. n. Germ, at Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCVI. to CCCCIX. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2379. 



Rootknobs palmately cleft, compressed. Stem solid during the 

 period of flowering. Lower leaves oval or oblong, subobtuse, almost 

 always spotted with purplish-black ; upper ones lanceolate or strap- 

 shaped, acute. Flowers in a dense oblong-pyramidal spike, which is 

 subacute until all the flowers are expanded. Bracts herbaceous, 

 3-nerved, all usually shorter than the flowers, or at least not exceedin"^ 

 them. Lateral sepals reflexed upwards, the upper one and the petals 

 connivent, all of them subobtuse or acute, pale lilac or white, with 

 purple ribs ; labellum about as broad as long, with the sides reflexed, 

 jiale lilac or nearly white, spotted or lined with purple, deeply 3-lobed ; 

 the middle lobe narrower than the lateral ones and shghtly exceeding 

 them, or more rarely only equal to them in length ; the lateral lobes 

 commonly denticulate ; spur conico-cylindrical, straight, shorter than 

 the ovary or about equal to it. 



In meadows, pastures, damp places in open woods and on chalky 

 banks. Common and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



