NOTES ON THE " LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS*' 105 



Orchis — as is shown by reference to the previous edition in which 

 that plant is numbered 8. Arachnites* was used by Linnseus as a 

 varietal name including the Bee and Spider series of 0. insectifera, 

 and it was employed specifically by Lamarck (Fl. France, iii. 515 

 (1778) ) in the same sense, and not in the restricted sense in which 

 it is used by Smith and English botanists. Miller, 1. a, restricted 

 this to the " Common Humble Bee Orchis,' 1 which Hudson had 

 already named O. apifera. In any case, however, this is anticipated 

 by Orchis fuciflora Orantz (Stirp. Austr. 483 (1769) ) whose descrip- 

 tion and citations leave no doubt as to his meaning. The synonymy 

 of our British species of Ophnjs is as follows : 



Ophrys muscifera Hudson, Fl. Anglica, 340 (1762). 



O. insectifera Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 6 (1768). 



Ophrys fuciflora Beichenb. Ic. FL Germ. xiii. 85 t. 109 (1851). 

 Orchis fuciflora Crantz, Stirp. Austr. 483 (1769). 

 Ophrys Arachnites Sm. Engl. Fl. iv. 273 (1828) et auct. 



Ophrys apifera Huds. Fl. Angl. 340 (1762), excl. (3. 

 0. Adrachmtes Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 7 (1768). 



Ophrys sphegodes Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 8 (1768). 



O. apifera (i Huds. Fl. Angl. 340 (1762). 



0. aranifera Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 392 (1778). 



407. Goodyera Br. The earlier name Peramium Salisb. is not 

 available, as Salisbury did not characterize the genus. 



411. Epipactis and 412. Cephalanthera. Linnaeus, Sp. PL 

 949 (1753), includes under Serapias Helleborine the species of 

 Epipactis and Cephalanthera. In ed. 2 (p. 1344, 1763) he restricts 

 Helleborine to the species known as Epipactis latifolia in a broad 

 sense, for which we have retained the original name, following 

 Crantz, btirp. Austr. ed. 2, 467 (1769). In the same work (p. 1346) 

 Linnaeus separates as S. lonyi folia the white-flowered species of 

 Cephalanthera and Epipactis palustris. In Syst. Nat. xii. 593 (1767) 

 he retains S. long i folia for Epipactis palustris, as is evident from 

 the description and the references to Scopoli, FL Cam. 256 (an 

 excellent description), &c. ; we therefore, following Allioni, FL 

 Pedemont. li. 152 (1785), retain the name for E. palustris. At the 

 same time Linnaeus separates the white-flowered Cephalantheras 

 as Serapias grandijiora. Scopoli, FL Carniolica, ed. ii. 203 (1772) 

 restricts S. grandijiora (= Epipactis alba Crantz, Cephalanthera 



fi 



longifolia 



414. Corallorrhiza Neottia Scopoli (Neotia), FL Carn. ed. 2, 



* The name is printed Admchnites and appears in this form in Miller, 

 Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 7, whence it is taken up by Dr. Schinz (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 1907, 108) for O.fucijlora. Adrachnites was however clearly a blunder on the 

 part of Linnreus ; he gives as a synonym "Orchis adrachnitis Lob. ic. 135," 

 but a reference to Lobel shows that Linnaeus misquoted both the name, which 

 stands as "andrachnitis," and the page, which is 185. In his note on 0. in- 

 sectifera (1. c.) Linnaeus writes arachnites, and the name appears in that form in 

 his Flora Anglica, 23 (1754). 



