344 83. 0ECHII)ACE2B. 



hood including the pet., bracts minute. — E. B. 8. 2675. JR. xiii. 

 376. — Smaller than the preceding. Helmet ash-coloured or pale 

 purple. Lip purple, white in the middle with raised rough red 

 spots, with a linear space between the pairs of lobes, and its 

 term, lobes broad. — Chalky hills. Berks., Oxf ., Bucks, Herts. 

 P. V. E. 



5. O. Sim'ia (Lam.) ; lohes of lip all long narrmo 1-veined 

 linear with an interm. setaceous tooth, spur J as long as the ger- 

 men, sep. converging into an ovate-lanceolate hood including^ 

 the pet., bracts minute. — 0. tephrosanthos E. B. 1873. JR. xiii. 

 373. — Blore slender than the preceding. Helmet darh purplish. 

 Lip with remarkably slender segments, dark purple, with or with- 

 out small rough raised points ; a linear space between the pairs 

 of lobes which are about equal in size. — Chalky hills in Berks., 

 Oxf., and Kent. P. V. E. 



6. O. ustuldta (L.) ; lobes of lip linear-oblong, spur f the 

 length of the germen, sep. converging into a roundish hood in- 

 cluding the pet., hracts long.—E. B. 18. R. xiii. 368.— St. 4—6 

 in. high. L. lanceolate, acute. Spike oblong, dense, dark at 

 top, nearly white below. Fl. small, many . Helmet dark purple. 

 Pet. linear-lanceolate, blunt. Lip white with purple spots.' — ■ 

 Calcareous hills. P. VI. E. 



tt Bracts with 3 or more veins, root-knobs undivided. 



[0. laxifldra (Lam.); lip 3-lohed, lateral lobes rounded and 

 crenulate in front longer than the truncate slightly emarginate 

 interm. lobe, spur shorter than the germen cylindrical, 2 lateral 

 sep. reflexed upwards, pet. converging, anth. oboordate apiculate. 

 —E. B. S. 2828. R. xiii. 393.— St. 1—2 feet high, round, an- 

 gular and rough upwards. L. lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 

 Bracts 3 — .5- veined. Spike long, lax. Fl. bright purple. Some 

 specimens approach O. paluatris. — Wet meadows and bogs in 

 Jersey and Guernsey. P. V. VI.] 



ttt Bracts with 3 or more veins, root-knobs palmate. 



7. 0. maculdta (L.) ; hp 3-lobed flat crenate, spur subulate 

 shorter than the germen, three sep. patent, pet. converging, st. solid, 

 1. lanceolate-obovate. — E. 5.632. i2. xiii. 407. — St. about a foot 

 high. L. usually spotted with purple; lower blunt or rarely 

 acute, broadest towards their top; upper linear-lanceolate, re- 

 sembling the bracts. Spike ovate, afterwards elongate ; lower 

 bracts exceeding the germen, upper ecnialling it. Fl. pale purple, 

 more or less streaked with purple. Lateral veins of bracts m- 



