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The root confifls of two oval folid bulbs, crowned 

 with thick flelhy fibres : the fialk is angular, 

 from a foot to eighteen inches high. The leaves 

 are radical, oval, two or three inches wide, and 

 generally two in number^ but fomerimes three. 

 Thofe on the ftalk are fmali, and refemble lan- 

 ceolate ^;^2//^. The flowers are white, with a 

 flight mixture of green, and grow in a long lax 

 fpike. The petals are diftended fo as clearly to 

 exhibit the ftamina to open view : the lip is long 

 narrow and linear : the necfarium^ or fpur is tu- 

 bular, a little compreiTed, about an inch long, 

 and contains a clear liquor. The anther ce are 

 yellow, and diflant from each other : the flow- 

 ers in the morning and evening have a fweet 

 honey-like fmell. 

 p* There is a variety of this orchis with a fmaller 

 flower and fliorter fl:alk, which bloflToms later, 

 and grows in dry pafl:ures, called the lefl^er but- 

 terfly orchis. 

 The roots of this, and mofl: of the other fpecies 

 of orchis, are efl:eemed to be aphrodiflacal. 



pyramidalis ORCHIS bulbis indlvifis, nedlarii labio bicorni 



2. trifido asquali integerrimo, cornu longo, petalis 



fublanceolatis. Syft. nat. 589. Sp.pl 1332. (Rati 



Syn. p. 377. /. 18. bcf7. Seg. Veron, t. 15. /. 11. 



Jlof. VailL pans. t. ^i.f. 3H. >/ Rivin, t. 14. 



HalL hift. Helvet. 1286. /. 35.) 



Purple late-flowering Orchis. Anglis. 



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