113 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



and turned do^\^lwards. Flowers of a purer white than in the two 

 preceding species. 



S. gemmipara approaches very closely to the North American S. ccr- 

 nua, but has the stem and leaves and spike usually shorter, the lateral 

 sepals less distmctly connivent Avith tlie upper sepal and petals, the 

 labellum more narrowed immediately below the apex, the callosities less 

 jn-oniinent, blunter, wholly adnate, and not hairy; the column nnich 

 broader under the stigmatic surface, and the beak of the rostcUum 

 shorter and split. Dr. Asa Gray considers that S. gemmipara is iden- 

 tical Avith S. Romanzoffiana. See " Proceedings of the Botanical Con- 

 gress, 18GG," p. 176. 



Tlie figure in " English Botany Suppl. " of No. 2786, presents no 

 resemblance whatever to the Irish plant. Our plate is taken from 

 that given in the " Botanical Magazine," by permission of the pub- 

 lisher. 



Three-ranked Ladies' Tresses. 



The species of this genus are commonly known by the name of Lachfs traces, which 

 appears to be a corruption of the proper name, which was doubtless originally " Our 

 Lady's tresses." 



GENUS IX.— G O O D Y E R A. Brown. 



Perianth coloured ; the upper 3 segments connivent and often par- 

 tially adherent; the exterior lateral ones spreading, not obUque, but 

 covering the labellum at the base; labellum turned downwards, not 

 spurred at the base, without callosities on the lower part, but concave, 

 saccate at the base, erect at the apex, entire, not contracted in the 

 middle. Colunm short, prolonged into a 2-toothed (or rarely entire) 

 rostellum. Anther subsessile, applied to the rostcllum ; pollen-masses 

 obovate, without stalks, affixed to a common gland ; pollen-grains 

 loosely cohering. 



Herbs with creeping brittle fleshy rootstocks and ovate radical 

 leaves. Flowers small, usually glandular, doAvny, white, in a few- 

 ranked spike which is generally unilateral, and slightly spiral. 



This genus of plants was named in honour of John Goodyer, a Hampshire botanist 

 and cori-espondent of Gerarde. 



SPECIES I.— GOODYER A RE PENS. B.Br. 



Plate MCCCCLXXV. 



Belch. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXXn. 



BiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1549. 



Satyrium repens, Limi. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 289. 



Leaves ovate or elliptical-oval, concolorous. Flowers in a unilateral 



