Aceras. | LXXXI. ORCHIDACE. 447 
In dry pastures, in southern Kurope, rarer in western Germany and 
France. In Britain, only in eastern England. J. carly summer, 
XIV. HERMINIUM. MUSK ORCHIS. 
Small-flowered plants, nearly allied to Habenaria, but the perianth has 
no spur, the anther-cells are distant at their bases, and the glands of the 
stalks of the pollen-masses protrude below the cells as in that genus. 
A genus of very few species, from the high northern or alpine regions 
of Europe and Asia. : 
1. H. Monorchis, Br. (fig. 1012). Musk Orchis.—A slender plant, 
seldom above 6 inches high, with 2 or very seldom 3 oblong or lanceo- 
- late, radical leaves. Tubers nearly globular, like those of an Orchis, but 
the new one, instead of being produced close to the stem, is formed at 
the end of one of the fibres proceeding from the crown, thus forming 
-a creeping rootstock. Spike slender, with numerous, small, yellowish- 
green flowers. Sepals erect or scarcely spreading, and narrow. Petals 
narrower and rather longer, instead of being shorter as in most British 
Orchids. Lip scarcely longer, erect, hollowed into a kind of pouch at 
' the base, but not spurred, with 3 narrow entire lobes. 
In hilly pastures, in central, northern, Arctic, and the mountains of 
_ southern Europe, and in temperate Asia. Very local in Britain, chiefly 
in the southern and eastern counties of England, and unknown in 
Scotland or Ireland. Fl. swmmer. 
XV. OPHRYS. OPHRYS. 
Habit, tubers, and foliage of an Orchis, but the flowers have no spur, 
and the lip is usually very convex, resembling more or less the body of 
-aninsect. Anther-cells distant at the base, protruding below the rest 
of the anther in 2 distinct little pouches enclosing the glands of the 
pollen-masses. 
A small genus, chiefly from the Mediterranean region, with a very 
few species spreading into central Europe. The forms assumed by the 
lip and its markings are so very variable that the accurate distinction 
of species, especially of the southern ones, is a matter of great doubt 
and difficulty. . 
Lip of the perianth as broad as long or nearly so, and scarcely 
_longer than the sepals. 
End lobe of the lip much turned under. Sepals usually pink . 1. O. apifera. 
Lip slightly lobed, the edges scarcely turned under. Sepals 
ereen . : : A ; : : : ; ; : . 2. O. aranifera. 
Lip of the perianth oblong, considerably longer than the sepals . 3. O. muscifera. 
1. O. apifera, Huds. (fig. 1013). ee O.—Tubers entire. Stem 9 to 
18 inches high, with a few oblong or lanceolate leaves near the base, 
and from 3 to 6 rather large, distant flowers, in a long, loose spike, 
each with a bract at least as long as the ovary, Sepals ovate, pink, 
pale green, or white, but always tinged with pink, very spreading or 
reflexed. Petals smaller, usually narrow, nearly erect. Lip broad, very 
convex, of a rich velvety brown, downy on the sides, smooth in the 
middle, and variously marked by paler lines or spots ; the lobes small 
