132 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



GENUS XV.— ORALLORRHIZA. Haller. 



Perianth subherbaceous, the five upper segments incurved, con- 

 nivent ; labellum about as long as the other segments, turned do'wn- 

 wards, w^ith a short spur or swelUng at the base often adherent tc the 

 summit of the ovary, with two callosities on the inside near the base, 

 3-lobed, the lateral lobes minute, the terminal one emarginate. Column 

 erect, rather short, semicylindrical. Anther terminal, resembling 

 a lid ; pollen-masses 4, obliquely incumbent, free ; pollen waxy or 

 subpulverulent. 



Herbs with the rootstocks branched like coral, fleshy; the stem 

 with scarious sheaths, but destitute of green leaves. Flowers small, 

 greenish-brown, spreading or drooping, in a lax spikelike raceme. 



The name of this genus is derived from KopdXKiov, coral, and plK<^, a root. 



SPECIES I.— CORALLORRHIZA INNATA. n.Br. 



Plate MCCCCLXXXVII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIH. Tab. XD. 



Billot, n. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 289. 



Ophrys Corallorrhiza, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1547. 



Flowers 3 to 12, in a lax spikelike raceme ; pedicels much shorter 

 than the ovary. LabeUum oblong, 3-lobed between the base and the 

 middle, the lateral lobes minute-triangular, the apical lobe emarginate 

 or indistinctly 3-toothed ; spur very minute, adnate to the ovary. 



In boggy woods. Rare. It occurs near Irvine, Ayrshire ; Ravelrig 

 ToU Moss, and near Currie, Edinburgh; near Dunfermline, Fifeshire; 

 near Culross, and formerly also in the woods of ]\Iethven Castle, Perth- 

 shire ; Sands of Barry, Forfar ; near Coutin, and Head of Little Loch 

 Broom, Ross ; and in Moray. 



Scotland. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Rootstock fleshy, branched, resembling coral, pale yellowish. Stem 

 3 to 10 inches high, with a few sheaths, but no green leaves. Flowers 

 spreading-ascending, afterwards horizontal; fruit drooping. Bracts 

 very mmute. Pedicels scarcely distinguishable from the narrowed 

 base of the ovary until the fruit is formed. Perianth segments about 

 4; mch long, the upper sepal lanceolate, connivent with the petals; 

 the lateral sepals strapshapcd, bent downwards close to the labellum, 

 which is about the same length, and has usually two very minute lobes, 

 one on either side near the base ; spur very minute, adnate to the 



