486 oucHiDACE,E. [Spiranthes. 



acule (or sometimes at hoUom), obtuse notch instead : at the base of the lip are a 

 pair ol' purplish black tubercular glands: the entire lip is of a dark purplish 

 browu, varying in intensity, and having in the centre a somewhat square and 

 lobed spot of bluish while, which is shining and j^ltibrous: beneath, ihe colour of 

 the lip is green, wilh the margins dull purplish. Bracts linear-lanceolate, con- 

 cave, erect, the central and upper ones mostly about as long as the flowers, the 

 lowermost and that immediately above it often considerably overtopping the calyx. 

 Column of the anther a single hood, without any anterior appendiige, greenish at 

 the back ; cells closely approximate and parallel throughout. Stigma a minute, 

 slightly concave, simple disk, with a raised purplish border, in shape nearly a 

 semioval or ellipse bisected through its minr>r axis, the apex downwards, the 

 truncate summit bearing the large, projecting, whitish pouches of the pollen- 

 masses, that are bright yellow, bifid, shortly stalked, with peltate, disciform, pellu- 

 cid glands ; pollen coarsely granular. Germen linear-oblong, usually exceeding 

 the lip in length. 



Tribe II. Limodoreje. 



Anther 1. Pollen cohering firmly in a definite number of simple 

 smooth {not granular or pulverulent) lobes, each of which is a pol- 

 len-mass, and finally becomes waxy {or rarely pulverulent when 

 bruised in ivater). 



V. Spieanthes, Rich. Lady's Tresses. 



^^ Perianth ringent; lip channelled, clawed, fringed; stigma 

 roundish, rostellated ; rostellum straight, bifid, with an elongated 

 linear appendage between its points." — Bab. Man. 



1. S. autihmnalis, Rich. Fragrant Lady's Tresses. " Root- 

 leaves oblong subpetiolate, spike twisted unilateral, lip oblong." 

 — Br. Fl. p. 418. Neottia spiralis, Rich. Ophrys, L. : E. B. t. 

 541. 



In dry, short, mostly hilly pastures; not unfrequent, and in some years quite 

 abundant. Fl. August, September. 2^. 



E. Med. — In the field between Oakfield and the fruit-garden at St. John's. 

 Pasture at the back of Pondwell, between Ryde and Nettlestone ; and between 

 Weeks's and Little Smallbrook farm. Near St. Lawrence, and at the foot of St. 

 Boniface down. In very great abundance in fields immediately at the back of 

 Sea grove, 1839; and in pastures about St. Helens, plentifully. Field near Har- 

 dingshoot farm, 1844. On the turf near Sandown fort, 1844. Field at the upper 

 end of Dover street, Ryde, Miss Theodora Price ! Plentifully on the turf between 

 the Old church sea-mark and the ferry opposite Bembridge, Mrs. Penfold. Sir 

 Nash Grose's grounds near Ryde, B. T. W. Mount Cleve, Niton, Miss Sims .'.'.' 

 On St. George's down, Mr. G. D. Snooke,jun., 1844!!! 



W. Med. — Norlhwood park. Miss. G. Kilderbee. Near Carisbrooke castle, Col- 

 well and Freshwater, B. T. W. Fields about Chale, Miss Lucas. 



Tubers of the root 1 — 3, very unequal, downy. Stems 3 — 8 inches high, clothed 



Spiranthes cestivalis, Rich., has been found by Mr. Branch, by a small boggy 

 stream between one and two miles from Lyndhurst by the road to Christchurch, 

 in which station I have myself gathered it in 1841. There is some reason for 

 thinking, with Lestibudois ('Flore de la Belgique') and others, that the differ- 

 ences between this species and iS. autumnalis, chiefly consisting in the elongation 

 of its parts, may be due to soil and situation. 



