5i6 GYNANDKIA DlANDRIA. 



There with fantaflic garlands did (he come. 

 Of crow-fiowers, nettles, daifies, and long purples^ 

 (That liberal fhepherds give a groffer name, 

 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them*) 



Hamlet.^ act Ji^. 

 Thtfakp of the fnops is made, for the moft part, 

 of the roots of this Orchis -, for this purpofe the 

 largcd and plumped bulbs muft be gathered, 

 ikinned, and boiled over a gentle fire for half 

 an hour; afterwards they muft be ftrung upon 

 a thread, and hung up in the fliade till they are 

 dry. Thefe, reduced to powder, are the falep^ 

 efteemed as a reftorative and aphrodifiac, and 

 reckoned ferviceable alfo in dyfenteries, and 

 phthificky complaints. 



^^ Bulh'is pahnatis, 



htijolla 5i ORCHIS bulbis fubpalmatis redis, ne(5larii cornw 



• conico •, labio trilobo lateribus reflexo, bradeis 

 Hore longioribus. Sp. pi. 1334.. (Ger, em, 226./. 

 I. £5? 222./. 3. Vaill. paris, /. 31./. 1, 2, 3, 4, 

 c^. flares. B/akzvelL t. 405. Oed^dan. /. 266. opL 

 Haller. hi ft. 1279. /. 32. bona.') 



Male handed Orchis. Anglis, 



In marfliy grounds and bogs common. '^. VI. 



The bulbs are divided into two or three fingers^ 

 which are not divaricated, but run diredtly 

 downv/ards : the leaves are broad, and com- 

 monly without fpots, but are fometimes obfcurely 

 ilained : the ftalk is a foot or more high, ftriated 



and 



