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Of this plant I have seen only dried continental specimens. The 

 dried plant has much the aspect of Habenaria albida, but the root- 

 knobs are 2, ovoid. The leaves ai'e elliptical oblong, and chiefly- 

 collected into a rosette of 2 to 4, and are said to be generally spotted 

 with brown. The stem in my specimens is inches to 1 foot high, 

 but Keichenbach says it is sometimes as little as 2 inches. Spike 1 

 to 8 inches long, dense. Flowers more or less turned in one direction. 

 I5racts triangular-lanceolate, membranous, 1-nerved, shorter than the 

 ovary. Sepals and lateral petals connivent, the former lanceolate- 

 acute; labellum a little longer than the perianth segments, suberect, 

 oblong, 3-lobed ; the lateral lobes strapshaped ; the central lobe 

 extending one-half beyond the lateral lobes and twice as broad, and 

 truncate or notched at the apex ; spur very short, conical. The 

 jierianth is described as pale pink, with the sepals and base of the 

 laljellum sometimes blotched with pale purple. The plant is remark- 

 able for the two fleshy semilunar lobes of the stigma, mth a broad 

 flat plate between them. The anther-cells are affixed each to a 

 gland ; these glands are really naked, but appear to be contained in a 

 pouch, from the " apex of the whole of the rostellum being rolled 

 imvards." (See "Proceedings of the London Botanical Congress, 

 1866," p. 176.) 



Dense-Flowered Orchis. 



GENUS VL—H'El'Rm IN IV M. R Brown. 



Perianth segments all connivent ; labellum turned downwards, not 

 spurred at the base. Anther wholly adnate to the column ; its two cells 

 diverging at the base, and each contaiuing a pollen-mass of which the 

 very short caudicule is afiixed to a larger gland, the two glands not 

 contained iri a pouch. Stigma without a rostellate process extending 

 between the anther-cells or a plate in front of them. 



Herbs with globular rootknobs, the new one formed at the ex- 

 tremity of a stolon in the British species. The habit is that of the 

 preceding genera. 



This genus of Orchids is said to have been named after Hermiono, the daughter of 

 Helen. 



SPECIES I.-HERMINIUM MONORCHIS. E.Br. 

 Platb MCCCCLXVI. 



Eekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCXV. 



BlUof, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. G58. 



Ophrys Monorchis, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 71. 



Herminium clandestinum, Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 299. 



Rootknobs 2 or more, subglobosc, the newly-formed one or ones 



