256 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Oplirys. 



HERMFNIUM. Musk-Orchis. 



This genus clearly marked by the petals and lip nearly resem- 

 bling each other, being all three-lobed. Sm. 



H. monorchis. Green Musk-0. Root leaves two, 

 spear-shaped. H. L. 138. Ophrys monorchis. E. 

 B. 71. Testicuhis odoratus. G. E. 218. 



Chalky banks, hillocks, not common. Sm. Stokenchurch Woods. 

 ./. Oglander, Esq. Purtons FL Found also in Berkshire. Sm. 

 E. FL Bank, near Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire. 

 Mr. Sandys, Pembroke Coll. Oxford. Near Great Kimble, 

 Bucks. Miss Mainstone and B.t. 



Per. June, July. 



This species has, to the casual observer, but one bulb : the bulb 

 for the following year, being slowly and distantly formed at the 

 end of one of the root fibres : one of the least species of the 

 Orchis tribe. Stem lour or five inches high. Stalk nearly 

 naked. Lip of nectary cross-shaped. Fl. yellowish -green, 



• sweet. Ls. root ones sheathing : stem-Is. one, or two, stalkless. 

 Bract, spear-shaped. 



OPHRYS. Insect-Orchis. 



O. muscifera. Fly Ophrys. Lip twice as long as the 

 calyx, with four, expanded lobes, somewhat downy; 

 the disk polished. Petals linear. Column blunt. E. 



B. 64. H. L. 31. Orchis myodes. G. E. 313. 



Chalky pastures. * * Near Wormsley. Sh. Several parts of 

 Berkshire. Sm. E. Fl. In a Beech Wood, near Henley, near 

 the road to Fawley, almost opposite Fawley Court; in Ji. May 

 23rd, 1831. B.v. 



Per, June. 



Cal. widely spreading, green. Pet. ascending, linear, resembling 

 the feelers of an insect,, very narrow, chocolate colour. Lip 

 oblong, blackish purple, with a blue band, below the upper 

 lobes. Stem nine to fifteen inches. Ls. three or four, spear- 

 shaped, many-veined. Bract, spear-shaped, sheathing, longer 

 than the germen. 

 Linn, considered all those species of Ophrys which resemble 



insects, as var. of one species. 



O. apifera. Bee Ophrys. Lip the length of the calyx, 

 swollen, with five, bent back, marginal lobes ; the ter- 

 minal one awl-shaped ; the rest hairy above. Calyx 



. coloured. Column with a hooked point. E. B. 383. 



C. 1. (^^Q' Baxter's (Generic,) plates, 8. Testiculus 

 vulpinus secutidus sphegodes. G. E. 212. 



