PLATE LXV. 



OPHRYS LILIFOLIA. 



Lily-leaved Ophrys. 



CLASS XX. 

 GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Spathae vagae. Spadix fimplex. Peri- 



anthium nullum. 

 Corolla. Petala quinque, oblonga, furfum 



conniventia, requalia; duo horum exteriora. 



Nedar'mm petalis longius, dependens; pof- 



tice tantum carinatum. 

 Stamina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo 



infidentia. Antheraj eredtae, tefte margine 



interiore ne&arii. 

 Pistillum. Germen oblongum, contortum, 



inferum. Stylus margini interiorl nectarii 



adnatus. Stigma obfoletum. 

 Pekicarpium. Capfula fubovata, trigona, ob- 



tufa, ftriata, trivalvis, unilocularis, angulis 



carinatis dehifcens. 



Semina numerofa, fcobiformia. 

 Receptaculum lineare, adnatum fingulas val- 

 vule pericarpii. 



SPECIFIC 

 Ophr}'s bulbo fubrotundo; fcapo nudo; foliis 

 ovato-oblongis, radicalibus; nectarii labio 

 Integra; petalis dorfalibus linearibus. 



ORDER I. 



Chives on the Pointal. 



Two Chives. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalks 

 fimple. Cup none. 



Blossom. 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. 



Chives. Two threads, very fhort, fixed to the 

 pointal. Tips upright, covered by the inner 

 edge of the honey-cup. 



Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, oblong, twifted 

 beneath. Shaft fixed to the inner edge of 

 the honey-cup. Summit imperfect. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly egg-lhaped, 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-veflel. 

 CHARACTER. 



Ophiys with roundifh roots; ftem naked; leaves 

 oblong, egg-lhaped, growing from the root; 

 the two back petals linear. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Honey-cup cut off the bloilbm. 



2. The Seed-bud and Pointal (natural lize) fhewn tideways. 



3. The fame (magnified) fhewn in front, with the cap lifted up, to expofe the parts of 



fructification. 



Gronovius, in his arrangement of the plants dilcovered by Mr. J. Clayton in Virginia, P. i, page ] 85, 

 has defcribed this plant ; and Linnaeus 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- 

 duction, the bulbs feem to acquire additional fize, and the fpikes of flowers to grow larger each year. 

 Our drawing was taken from a plant in the extenfive collection of the 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 is a hardy plant, and will thrive in a fheltered border, if planted in light earth, and 

 kept moift; is propagated but flowly by the root, which feems the only method; as the feeds are too 

 imall of all this natural order to raife them by that means. 



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