We have it i dry pattures, 
It flowers in Auguft, ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Triarchis alba odorata.” Our 
people, Ladies orchis, and Ladies traces. 
Authors fpeak of a leffer kind, but it is only 
a variety; and of a {mall bulbous orchis, which is 
in the fame manner a variety of the preceding. 
but not common. 
to. Common Man-Orchis. 
Orchis floribus fubcinereis. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, oblong, and 
of a deep green, 
The ftalk is round, and of a pale green, and 
is a foot high. 
The flowers are outwardly of a dufky greyith 
colour; and are of a paler hue, and tinged more or 
Jefs with red within. Fancy has fuppofed the re- 
prefentation of a human body, arms, and legs, 
jn this flower ; whence it has obtained the name 
man-orchis ; but the refemblance is far-fetched. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cyxo-orchis latifolia bicante 
cucullo major. 
We have it in dry paftures, flowering in June. 
tr. Blackifh-flowered Man-Orchis. 
Orchis flore majore purpuro nigricante. 
The root is a double bulb. 
‘The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a ftrong 
green. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high. 
The flowers are large; and they ftand in a 
great, thick {pike at the top. 
The upper part of the flower is of a blackith 
purple: the lower part is fuppofed to have a re- 
prefentation of a human body, with the arms 
and legs; and this part is whitifh, and covered 
with reddifh or purplith hairs. 
We have it on chalky hills. 
June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Orchis magna latifolia, 
It flowers in 
12. Greenifh Man-Orchis, 
Orchis flore fubviridi. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, and of a 
deep green. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high. 
The flowers terminate it ina long, loofe flen. 
der {pike : they have the fame refemblance of the 
human form with the preceding; and they are 
of a greenifh colour, tinged in fome parts with 
brown. = 
We have it on chalky hills, flowering in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis flore nudi hominis 
formam reprefentante femina, Others, Orchis Or- 
eades famina. 
13. The Fly-Orchis. 
Orchis myodes minor. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a dufky 
green. . 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and a 
foot high. 
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The flowers ftand at the top in a loofe fpike : 
they are of a very fingular form, reprefenting not 
unaptly the head, body, and wings, of a fly, 
The upper part of the flower is greenifhs the 
lower part reprefenting the body Js of a deep 
dufky brown, f 
We have it on chalk-hills, 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis myodes galea et alis 
herbidis. Others, Myodes minor. 
It flowers in 
14. The Greater Fly-Orchis, 
Orchis myodes major. 
The root is a double bulb, 
The leavés are broad, fhort, and of a deep 
green. 
The ftalk is two feet high, 
thick, 
The flowers ftand on the top in a loofe fpike : 
they ‘are large, and of a dufky colour, paler at 
ae top: they reprefent very aptly fo many large 
ies. 
We have it in dry paftures, but not common, 
It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis mufcam referens major. 
and confiderably 
15. The Great Bee-Orchis, 
Orchis fucifora major. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a deep 
green. ; 
The ftalk is a foot high ; and the flowers ftand 
at the top in a kind of loofe fpike. 
They are large, and in the higheft degree fin- 
gular and beautiful: they fo perfectly reprefent the 
fimaller kind of humble bee, that one might ftrike 
at them, fuppofing them bees fitting on the plant. 
The uprer part, reprefenting the head, is whitith 5 
the fide-pieces, reprefenting wings, are purplith ; 
and the body is brown, variegated in an elegant 
manner with lines and ftreaks of yellow. 
The colours are in different foils fomewhat un- 
certain, but the form is conftant. 
We have it in chalk-pits, It flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis fucum referens major 
Soliolis fuperioribus candidis ct purpurafcentibus. 
16. The Bee-Orchis, with green wings, 
Orchis fuciflora ferruginea, 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a dee 
The ftalk is a foot high, and at its top the 
flowers ftand in a loofe fpike. They very happily 
reprefent the common bee: they are hairy, and 
of a dufky, variegated brown in the body or 
lower part; and the upper parts, forming the 
head and wings, are of a pale, greenifh hue, 
fometimes tinged lightly with flefh-colour or 
white. ; 
We have it in dry paftures, flowering in the 
beginning of May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis fucum referens colore 
rubiginofo. 
green, 
17. The 
