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SPECIES I.— H ABENAKI A VIRIDIS. B.Br. 



Pl.\te MCCCCLXII. 



EdcJi. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XHI. Tab. CCCCXXXTV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, ct Germ. Exsicc. No. 2936. 



Platantliera viridis, Lindl. Sjti. Brit. Fl. p. 2C1. Reich, fil. I.e. p. 129. 



Gymnadeuia viridis, Eich. Coss. & Germ. Fl. Par. ed. ii. p. 688. Orep. Man. Fl. 



Belg. ed. ii. p. 294 

 Orchis viridis, Craniz. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. IH. p. 208. Sm. Engl. FL 



Vol. IV. p. 20. 

 Coeloglossum viride, Hartm. Scand. Fl. ed. is. p. 190. Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 61. 



Koch, Syif. Fl. Gei-m. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 79-5. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. III. p. 407. 

 Satyrium viride, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 94. 



Root-tubers 2, ovate-ovoid, acuminate, commonly cleft. Lower 

 leaves oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or acute; U2)per leaves 

 smaller, lanceolate, acute. Flowers in a rather lax oblong-cylindrical 

 spike. Sepals and lateral petals connivent in a subglobular helmet; 

 labellum pendant or reflexed, longer than broad, obldng-strapshaped, 

 twice as long as the other segments, with 2 short lobes at the apex 

 with a tooth between them ; the whole of the perianth segments pale 

 ohve-green, more or less tinged with brown, especially on the label- 

 lum; spur short, ovoid-conical, blunt, often emarginate, 3 or 4 times 

 shorter than the ovary. 



In meadows and hilly pastures. Rather local, and generally dis- 

 tributed, but much more common in the north than in the south, 

 extending to Orkney and Shetland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Rootknobs seldom larger than a cherry stone. Stem 2 to 15 inches 

 high, ■with commonly 3 to 5 leaves, the largest rarely more than 1 to 

 2 inches long. Spike i- to 4 inches long. Bracts herbaceous, about as 

 long as the flowers or exceeding them. Perianth segments about \ 

 inch long, ovate, subacute ; petals linear and acute ; labellum usually 

 applied to the ovary, rather more than \ inch long, with the central 

 tooth variable in size, sometimes nearly as large as the apical lobes, 

 at other times scarcely perceptible. 



Frog Orchis. 



French, OrcJiis vert. German, Griine Kuchickslluine. 



SPECIES n.—H ABENAKI A BIPOLIA. R.Br. 



Plates MCCCCLXIII. MCCCCLXIV. 



Orchis bifolia, Linn. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 9. 

 Platanthera bifolia, Lind. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 261. 



Root-tubers 2, ovate- or lanceolate-ovoid, acuminate, undivided. 



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