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is rich and beautiful ; but the odour is strong and offencive, 

 especially in the evening. — Fl. April — June. Perennial. 



9. 0. laxi flora (Lax-flowered Orchis), with unspotted leaves, and 

 large, bright red flowers in a loose spike, with long, 3 — 5-veined 

 lr<icfs and reflexed stpals, occurs on!)' in the Channel Islands. — 

 Fl. Mav, Tune- Perennial 



** Tubers palmate 



10. 0. incanidia (Crimson 

 3.Iarsh-Orchis). Stem about 

 a foot high, usually hollow ; 

 leaves radical and cauline, 

 lanceolate, acute, concave at 

 the tip, unspotted ; flowers 

 rose-coloured, in a dense 

 spike ; bracts long, 3-veined, 

 green ; sepals spreading ; lip 

 slightly 3-lobed ; spur shorter 

 than the ovary. — ]\Iarslies ; 

 frequent.— PI. June. Peren- 

 nial. 



11. 0. latiiolia (Marsh- 

 Orchis). — A closely allied and 

 very similar species : leaves 

 generally with ring-shaped 

 spots, oblong, flat at the tip.— 

 Marshes : less frequent. — Fl. 

 May, June, often over before 

 the preceding species flowers. 

 Perennial. 



12. 0. iiHUuldta (Spotted 

 Orchis).— S/f'« about a foot 

 high, solid ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, radical, and cauline, 

 with numerous squarish spots ; 

 flowers lilac or white, curiouslv 

 marked with dark lines and 



spots, in a dense, oblong-pyramidal spike ; braats 3-veined, green ; 

 Up deeply 3-lobed. — Moist heaths and commons ; abundant. — Fl. 

 May— July. Perennial. 



.12, AcER.^s (Man-Orchis).— Leafy plants with ovoid tubers; 

 sessile flowers with a hood ; lip anterior, long, 4Jobed, not spurred : 



.\CER.\S ANYHR'j 



jKA \ M an-Orchis). 



