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

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



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

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

 bracts and reflexed sepals, occurs only in the Channel Islands. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial 



** Tubers palmate 



10. 0. incarndla (Crimson 

 Marsh-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. — Marshes ; 

 frequent. — Fl. June. Peren- 

 nial 



11. 0. latifolia (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. maculdta (Spotted 

 Orchis). — Stem about a foot 

 high, solid; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, radical, and cauline, 

 with numerous squarish spots ; 

 flowers lilac or white, curiously 

 marked with dark lines and 

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

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

 May — July. Perennial. 



ACERAS ANfHROPOPHORA (Maft-OrcAts). 



12. Aceras (Man-Orchis). — Leafy plants with ovoid tubers, 

 sessile flowers with a hood ; lip anterior, long, 4-lobed, not spurred 



