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O^phrys.'] lxxxix. ORCHiDACEk. 437 



with two lanceolate-oblong Zeares at the base, and a small one on the 

 stem or scape. Flowers small green. Perianth bent down from the 

 top of the erect c/ermen. Outer sepals equal, ovate, shorter than the 

 inner ones; lateral inrier ones ovate, acuminate, undivided: lower 

 or Up 3-fid ; the two side-lobes rather small ; intermediate one much 

 longer, linear. Pollen-mass on a short foot-stalk, with a large white 



gland. 



%.^^ 14. O'PHRYS Linn. Ophrys. 



Lip without a spur. Glands of the stalks of the poUen-mmses 



each in a distinct little pouch. — N'ame : ocbpvc, the eyehrow, 



which Pliny says this plant was used to blacken. The flowers 



of all the species are beautiful and curious, and more or less 



^jjjj^. aptly resemble certain insects. 



istinj' 1. 0. apifera'Rv.d.^. {Bee 0.); lip tumid trifid, the inter- 



mediate lobe recurved at the margin emarginate with a- long 

 subulate reflexed appendage in the notch, anther elongated 

 with a hooked point, inner sepals oblong bluntish downy. 



'^^^< E. -B. t- 383. O. insectifera u L. 



^^' Chalky and clayey soils in various parts of England, in pastures and 



pits. 1^. 6, 7. — Floivers large. Outer sepals purplish or greenish- 

 -white, lateral inner ones oblong, very small, of the same colour. Lip 

 velvety or silky, rich brown variegated with yellow. 



2. 0. arachnites Willd. {late Spider O.) ; Up longer than the 

 sepals dilated somewhat tumid with 4 shallow marginal lobes 

 ^"gJlf and a terminal flattened somewhat heart-shaped straight or 

 ' * ascending appendage, outer sepals coloured, inner ones deltoid 



downv, anther wiUi a straight or hooked point. E. B. S. 

 t. 2596, 



Chalky downs of South Kent, between Folkstone and Sittingbourne. 

 S"'*! 1^. 5,6, — The Rev. G. E. Smith speaks of this as allied to O. 



apifera, with which, and probably 0. fucifera, it forms frequent 

 ^•f ' hybrids. The essential distinctions are to be sought in the position 



of the appendage at the extremity of the lower lip, which is straight 



IC"' y (and never recurved) ; in the more or less deltoid form of the purplish 



M^ \ or green inner sepals; in the more bent and short, as well as paler, 



outer ones ; and in the proportion borne to them by the lip, which is 

 either equal or longer, and which presents in the true plant a nearly 

 entire margin, and a more obvious shade of green in the various lines 

 and spots upon its dull or intensely brown disk. 



3. 0. aranifera Huds, {Spider O.) ; lip tumid clothed with 



f^'"'' ^ short dense hairs emarginate entire or obscurely lobed, middle 



I lobe large without an appendage or with a mere gland or point 



^(e. in the notch, outer sepals green, inner ones linear, anther acute. 



— a. lip lobed, inner sepals glabrous. jEJ. jB. t. 65. — (3. lip 

 1 undivided with a spreading wavy margin, inner sepals scabrous. 



J I '0. fucifera Sm.: E. B. S. X. 2649. 



