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PLATE LXV. 
OPHRYS LILIFOLIA. 
—— Lily-leaved Ophrys. 
CLASS Xx. 
ORDER I. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Spathz vage. Spadix fimplex. Peri- 
anthium nullum. 
Corotra, Petala quinque, oblonga, furfum 
conniventia, zequalia; duo horum exteriora. 
Ne@arium petalis longius, dependens; pof- 
tice tantum carinatum. 
Stamina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo 
infidentia. Antherz erete, tecte margine 
interiore neCtarii. 
Pistittum. Germen oblongum, contortum, 
inferum. Stylus margini interiori nectarii 
adnatus. Stigma obfoletum. 
Pericarrium. Capfula fubovata, trigona, ob- 
tufa, ftriata, trivalvis, unilocularis, angulis 
carinatis dehifcens. 
SemIna numerofa, {cobiformia. 
Recerracutum lineare, adnatum fingule val- 
vulz pericarpii. 
SPECIFIC 
Ophrys bulbo fubrotunda; fcapo nudo; foliis 
ovato-oblongis, radicalibus; neétarii labio 
integro; petalis dorfalibus linearibus. 
Biossom. Five petals, oblong, approaching 
upwards, equal; two of them placed out- 
wards 
Honey-cup longer than the petals, hanging 
down; only keeled on the back part 
Cuives. Two threads, very fhort, fixed to the 
pointal. Tips upright, covered by the inner 
edge of the honey-cup. 
PorntTaxt. Seed-bud beneath, oblong, twifted 
beneath. Shaft fixed to the inner edge of 
the honey-cup. Summit imperfect. 
SgED-vesseL. Capfule nearly egg-fhaped, three- 
fided, blunt, channelled, three-valved, and 
one cell, opening at the keel-fhaped an- 
gles. 
SEEDs numerous, like faw-duft. 
RECEPTACLE linear, growing to each valve of 
the feed-veffel. 
CHARACTER. 
Ophrys with roundith roots; ftem naked; leaves 
oblong, egg-fhaped, growing from the root ; 
the two back petals linear. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Honey-cup cut off the bloffom. 
2. The Seed-bud and Pointal (natural fize) fhewn fideways. 
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3. The fame (magnified) fhewn in front, with the cup lifted up, to expofe the parts of 
fru@tification. . 
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Gronovtvs, in his arrangement of the plants difcovered by Mr. J. Clayton in Virginia, P. i, page 185, 
has defcribed this plant; and Linneus after him, in his fecond edition of the Species Plantarum, 
page 1341, has it likewife, but thought it only a large variety of a fpecies found in marfhy grounds 
in’ Sweden; however that may be, it is perfectly new to Britain, as a plant in our gardens. This 
fpecies of Ophrys feems much more eafy to preferve than moft of its congeners, as, fince its intro- 
duaion, the bulbs feem to acquire additional fize, and the {pikes of flowers to grow larger each year. 
Our drawing was taken from a plant in the extenfive colle@tion of tne Right Hon. the Marquis of 
Blandford, Bill-hill, Berkfhire, in the year 1797, about the beginning of the month of July ; having 
been fent the preceding year from Philadelphia, by J. Lyons, gardener to William Hamilton, Efq. of 
that State. It isa hardy plant, and will thrive in a theltered border, if planted in light earth, and 
<< Chept moift ; is propagated but flowly by the root, which feems the only method; as the’ feeds are too 
fmall of all this natural order to raife them by that means. 
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