PLATE 
ORCHIS 
fringed Orchis. 
CLASS. XX. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
XLII. 
CILIA RIS. 
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Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Spathe vage. Spadix fimplex. Peri- EmpaLeMentT. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalk 
anthium nullum. ; imple. Cup none. 
Corotra. Petala quinque; tria exteriora; duo Bossom. Petals five; three outer ones; two 
interiora furfum conniventia in galeam. 
_ Nedarium monophyllum, a latere inferiore 
inter divifuram petalorum receptaculo af- 
fixum. Labio fuperiore ereéto, breviffimo. 
Labio inferiore magno, patente, lato. Tubo 
poftice corniformi, nutante. 
Stamina. Filamenta duo, tenuiflima, breviffi- 
ma, piftillo infidentia. Antherz obovate, 
ereéte, tecte duplicatura biloculari labii 
fuperioris ne¢tarii. 
Pisriztum. Germen oblongum, contortum, in- 
‘ferum. Stylus adnatus labio fuperiori nec- 
tari, brevifflimus. Stigma compreffum, ob- 
tafi 
Pericarrium. Capfula oblonga, unilocularis, 
tricarinata, trivalvis; fub carinis trifariam 
dehifcens, apice et bafi cohzrens. 
SEMINA numerofa, minima. 
ae . Nog SPECIFIC 
_ Orchis radicibus fubpalmatis, expanfis ; ne¢tarii 
labio lanceolato, ciliato, cornu torto, lon- 
_ giffimo; floribus luteis. 
1. The Honey-cup 
2. The upper Petal 
3. A fide Petal. 
4. One of the inner Petals, 
with its Horn. 
inner ones approaching upwards in form of 
a helmet. 
Honey-cup one leaf, fixed by the lower fide 
to the receptacle betwixt the divifion of the 
petals. Upper lip upright, and very fhort. 
Lower lip large, fpreading, broad. Tube 
flanding behind, fhaped like a horn, and 
hanging down. : 
Cuives. Two threads, very flender, and very 
fhort, fixed on the pointal. Tips invertely 
egg-fhaped, upright, covered by a folding 
of the upper lip of the honey-cup, forming 
two cells. 
Seed-bud oblong, twifted, and be- 
Shaft fixed to the upper lip of the 
honey-cup, very fhort. Summit flattened, 
and blunt-ended. ae 
Srep-vesseL. Capfule oblong, of one cell, three 
keels, three valves; {plitting in three places 
under the keels; faftened at the point, and 
the bafe,. 
Sreps numerous, very imall. 
HARACTER. 
Orchis with roots nearly hand-fhaped, fpread- 
ing; lip of the honey-cup lance-fhaped, and 
fringed, horn twifted, very long; flowers 
yellow. ; 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
5. The Chives, and Pointal attached to the horn of the Honey-cup. 
6. The Chives, and Pointal, magnified; with the Chives drawn from their cells. 
_ Tats handfome Orchis is 
far north as Canada: it ha 
be planted in a mixture of 
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