GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Orchis. 255 



Per. May. 



Stem leafy, one to two feet. Ls. sheathing, spear-shaped, broadish, 

 commonly unspotted. Spike close, many-flowered. Bract. 

 erect, leafy, sometimes coloured. Fl. pale flesh-colovired, or 

 full rose, or crimson ; the spreading calyx dotted. Lip its 

 middle variegated. Spur bent downwards. Cal. two outer 

 segments bent back. 



Discrim. Its scarcely three-cleft lip, broad, nearly erect, sharp- 

 ened leaves, and by its bracteas longer than the germen. 



O. maculdta. Spotted Palmate 0* Knobs hand-shaped, 

 spreading. Lip of the nectary flat, notched, three - 

 lobed ; spur cylindrical, rather shorter than the germen. 

 Bracteas shorter than the flowers. E. B. 632. H. L. 

 112. Palma Christi foemina. G. E. 220. 



Meadows, jjastures, woods. 



Per. Jtine. 



Plant slender. Stem leafy, simple, twelve to eighteen inches. Ls. 

 spear-shaped, keeled, spotted on both sides. Spike egg-shaped. 

 Bract, pui'plish, awl-shaped. Ground of the flower, in general, 

 white, tinged with a purple blush, the spots deep purple. Lip 

 intermediate segment, small, and sharp. Fl. sometimes white. 

 Cal. three inner segments approaching at the top, the side ones 

 spreading. The Or. Morio, and Or. mascula, have also fre- 

 quently, spotted leaves. 

 The bulb destined to bear the next year's plant will sink in 



water ; that from which the present plant springs will, from its 



comparative lightness, swim in the water. Linn. Fl. Suec. 



O. conopsea.^ Aromatic 0. Knobs hand-shaped. Lip 

 of the nectary in three entire, equal lobes ; spur very 

 long and slender, twice as long as the germen. Calyx 

 widely spreading. E. B. 10. Serapias minor, nitente 

 flore. G. E. 222. S. gariophyllata. G. E. 223, 



Moistish meadoivs, pastures. * * Rough pastures adjoining Cowley 

 Common. Sb. Bogs under Headington Wick Copse. 3Ir. 

 Thomas Perry, Headington. (N.W. of Wytham Wood. B.v.) 



Per. June. 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches, angular above. Ls. spear-shaped, 

 pointed, lower stem-leaves sheathing, upper ones stalkless. 

 Spike long, lax. Fl. flesh-coloured, or pale purple, very 

 fragrant. Calyx-Is. two outer spear-shaped, at right angles with 

 the lip. Spur semitransparent. Fl. sometimes white. 



Discrim. Great length of the almost bristle-shaped sptir, and its 

 hand-shaped root, sufficient. 



' From an imaginary resemblance of an insect genus, called conops. 



