PHRYS SPIRALIS. LADIES TRACES. 



OPHRYS Lin. Gen. PL GynAn£>ria DiandriA. 



Netlarium fubtus fubcarinatum. 



Rail Syn. Gen. it. Herbje radice bulbosa prjeditje. 



OPHRYS Jpiralis bulbis aggregatis oblongis, cattle fiibfoliofo, floribus fecttndis, lieclarii labio iiidivifd 

 crenato. Lin. Syfi. Vegetab. p. 677. Sp. PL 1340. 



EPIPACTIS bulbis cylindricis, fpica fpiralij labello crenulato. Haller. Hi/I: ru 1294» 



SERAPIAS Jpiralis. Scopoli Flor. Cam. rU 1 1 25. 



ORCHIS fpiralis alba odorata. I. B. II. 769» 



TRIORCHIS alba odorata minor, atque etiam major. Bauhin. Pin. 84. 



TRIORCHIS. Ger.gmac.21S. Parkins. 1354 Raii Syn. p. 378. Triple Ladies Traces. Hudfirn PL 

 Angl. p. 388. 



RADIX fit uno, duobus, tribus, quatuorve bulbis, ob-¥ ROOT confifts of one, two, three, or four oblong, 

 longis, acuminatis, villofis. | pointed, villous bulbs. 



FOLIA radicalia quatuor, et ultra, fupra terram expanfa,£ LEAVES next the root four, or more, fpreadout on the 

 ovata, acuta, hinc convexa, inde cava, femun- 1 ground, ovate, pointed, convex on one fide, 



ciam lata, ad lentem pun&ata, obfolete ner-f and concave on the other, half an inch in 



voia. $ breadth, dotted when magnified, and faintly 



y , ribbed. 



SCAPUS fpithamseus, foliofus, foliis vaginantibus, pu- 1 STALK fix or feven inches high, leafy, leaves fheathy, 

 befcentibus, margine membranaceis. | downy, and membranous at the edge. 



FLORES ex albo-viref centes, odorati, quindecim et % FLOWERS of a greenifli white colour, fragrant, fifteen 

 ultra, fpira modo dijpofiti. | and more in number, fpirally difpofied. ^ 



BRACT^EA oblonga, acuminata, cava, villofa, germi- % FLORAL-LEAF oblong, pointed, hollow, villous, of 

 wis cum dimidio floris longitudine. fig. 1. | ; the length of the germen, and half the flower, 



% fig- l - 



PETALA quinque, alba, fubaequalia, villofula, tria fu- | PETALS five, white, nearly equal, fomewhat villous, 

 periora fubcoadunata, recla, duo lateralia cari- 1 the three uppermost very (lightly connefted 



nata, lanceolata, fig. 2, 3.; labellum Nedtanit together, flraight, the two fide ones keeled and 



obtufum, crenulatum, intus viridulum, conca-| lanceolate, fig. 2, 3.; the lip of the Nectary 



\um, fig. 4. zuCt.fig. 5. t blunt, finely notched, green within and hol- 



| low, fig. 4. magnified,^. 5. 



GERMEN feffile, ovatum, lineis duabus lateralibus ex- % GERMEN feffile, ovate, marked with two protuberant 

 tantibus notatum. fig. 6. ? fide lines, fig. 6. 



The Rev. Dr. Goodenough, of Ealing, kindly communicated to us this plant, having found it fparingly on 

 Hanwet Heath, new Ealing: though fcarce with us, in many parts of England, efpecially the more northern, it is 

 not Uncommon. It grows in paftures, both dry and moift, and does not particularly arTefta chalky foil. In the garden 

 it o-rows more readily than moft of its tribe, and flowers later, its ufual month of blowing being September. 



The protuberant germina, placed regularly one above another, fomewhat refemble plaited hair, whence, perhaps, 

 its name of Ladies traces. The flowers are fragrant, and, by the fpiral manner in which they grow, form a 



curious fpecific character. -. ... 



Baron Haller, who has taken infinite pains with the plants of this tribe, has not very happily exprelled this 

 fpecies; his artift appears to have had an unnatural fpecimen to copy from. 



The Ladies Traces varies much in fize as well as in the number of its roots» 



