GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 525 



The kiives are only two, fmooth, oppofite, and 

 * heart-fhaped, and about half an inch wide ar. 



the bafe : the flowers grow in a thin fpikc, ten 

 or twelve in niinnber ; of a green colour, often 

 turning red in decay : the petals are lanceolate, 

 and (land wide open : the lip is femibihd, longer 

 than the o-ermen, and has a dent on each fide ac 

 the bafe, which is wanting in the preceding 

 fpecies : the fegments are acute, and often of a 

 dark red colour. 



** Bull/Is rotundisi 



faludofa 5. OPHRYS bulbo fubrotundo, fcapo fubnudo, pen^ 

 tagono, foJioruni apicibus fcabris, ne6larii labio 

 integro. Sp. pi. 1341- (PM. aim, L 247. /. 2. 

 PeL kerb, t. 70, f.ii) 



Marfli Opbrys, Jngl^s. 



We have received information that this has bcca 

 found in fome mardies near St. Andrews^ but we 

 do not affirm it from our own knowledge. %, \ 

 VIII. IX. 



The root conQds of one, ind fometimes more 

 bulbs growing one above another, with fibres 

 iliooting from tlieir bafe : the ilalk is about a 

 finger's length, and has two or three alternate 

 oval-lanceolate leaves near its bafe, havino- their 

 inner margin towards the top ferrulated and 

 rough to the touch : the flowers are numerous, 

 twenty or thirty in a fpike, of a ycilowifli green 

 colour : the fide petals fold back and (land erect : 

 the lip of the netfaruim is lanceolate ^w^ -nrire. 



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