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LXXXIX, 0RCI1IDACE.E 



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yera 



more or less decurrent on tte ovary. Lip beardless, campanu, 

 late, embracing the wingless column and cohering below with 

 its produced base, with 2 callosities below the middle, entire at 

 the apex. Pollen farinaceous. — Flowers in a spirally twisted 

 spike. — Named from veoma^ a bird's nest (See Listera Nidus^ 

 avis). It is the genus Spiranthes of Richard. 



1. N. spiralis Rich, {fragrant L.) ; root-leaves oblono- g^{), 

 petlolate, spike ' unilateral, lip oblong. Ophrys Z. ; E. £. 

 t. 541. Spiranthes autumnalis Rich. 



Dry hilly pastures in various parts of England in a chalky or 

 gravelly soil. 1^. 8, 9. — Knobs 3 — 4, ohlong. Stern 4 — 6 inches 

 high, rather bracteated than leafy. Flowers singularly spiral on the 

 stalk, greenish white. Upper outer and 2 lateral i7mer sepals combined. 

 Lip longer than the rest of the flower, oblong, broader and crenate at 

 the apex. Stigma and anther both acuminate. 



2. N. cestivdlis L. (^Summer i.) ; knobs cylindrical lono- 

 radical leaves oblong-lanceolate, cauline narrow-lanceolate 

 spike lax. Bab. in E. B, S. t. 2817. Spiranthes aestivalis 

 Bich. 



Bogs and marshes. Between Lyndhurst and Christchurch in the 

 New Forest, Hants. St. Ouen's Pond, Jersey. 2^. 7, 8. 



3. N". ccrnua Willd. (drooping i.) ; knobs long cylindrical, 

 radical leaves linear lanceolate, cauline ones triangular lanceo- 

 late, bracteas glabrous shorter than the flower, spike dense 

 3-ranked, sepals equal obtuse cohering together, lip oblono- 

 slightly constricted in the middle upper segment obtuse crenu- 

 late. Bab, N. gemmipara Sm. : E. B. S. t. 2786 (bad). Spi- 

 ranthes cernua Rich. : Bab. in Linn. Soc. Trans, xix. p. 262. 

 t. 32. 



Dunbog, Bear-Haven, Co. Cork, Ireland. If.. 8, 9. — Stouter 

 and shorter than our American specimens, but perhaps not a distinct 

 species. The reader will find a full account of it by Mr. Babington, 

 in the Linnean Transactions above referred to. 



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7. GooDYERA Br. Goodyera. 



Perianth rlngent : the 2 lateral outer sepals placed under and 

 including the gibbous base of the lip. Lip entire at the apex, 

 free from the column, flat above and without callosities. Pollen- 

 masses sectile. Pollen angled. — Named in compliment to 



Mr. John Goodijer, a Hampshire botanist of the time of Ge- 

 rarde. 



1. G. repens Br. {creeping G.) ; lower leaves 

 sepals and lip ovate-lanceolate, root creeoln"- 

 E. B. t. 289. ^ °' 



ovate petiolate, 

 Satyrium L. : 



Old fir forests in the north, and especially the N. Highlands of 



