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lobes are (lightly crenated and reflex'd ; the cen- 

 tral one is crenated and flightly bifid : the fpur 

 is about the length of the germen, obtufe at 

 the end, emarginatedj arid a little afcending : 

 the BraBe^ are of the colour of the flower, and 

 about the length of the germen. 



mafcila 4. ORCHIS bulbis indivifis^ neclarii labio quadrilo- 

 bo crenulato ; cornu obtufo, petalis dorfalibus 

 feflexis. Sp, fl 1333. Syfi, nat, 590. (Gef, em. 

 208./. I. 6"^^. Vercn, /. 15./. 6, flof. Vaill Paris. 

 t. Zi,f. II, 12. Kivin, t. 21. Blakwell t. 53. 

 Oed, dan. t, 457. Halier. hifi.iiS^. t. '^^^opL) 



Male Fool- ftones; AngUs. 



In woods frequent, as in Legton-Wood^ near BaU 

 keiih, &c. %,\l. 



The flalk is about a cubit high : the leaves broad, 

 flat, and glofly, and generally ftained with 

 blood-colour'd fpots : the flowers grow in a long 

 thin fpike, of a fpecious purple colour : the 

 exterior petals are oval and acute -, the two flde 

 Ones fold back, fland eredt, and have no green 

 fl:reaks : the lip of the nedarium is crenated 

 and trifid, and the middle lobe bifid, but is 

 lengthened out beyond the flde ones. In thefe 

 refpeds it diflPers from the preceding. 



The fpikes of thefe flov/ers are the Long-Purples^ 

 or dead men's fingers^ which helped to compofe 

 poor Ophelia'^ garlands : 



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