A444 THE ORCHID FAMILY. [ Orchis. 
bud, entire or notched at the tip; the sepals converging over the column, 
and the petals small. Loroglossum hircinum, Rich. 
Widely spread over central and southern Europe, but everywhere rather 
scarce, and often only in single specimens, extending into Belgium. Ex- 
tremely rare in Britain, and confined to Kent, Surrey, and Suffolk. 7, 
summer. 
9, O. pyramidalis, Linn. (fig. 1003). Pyramidal Orchis.—Tubers 
entire. Stem afoot high or rather more, with lanceolate leaves, usually 
narrow and pointed. Spike very dense, ovoid or oblong, 2 to 3 or even 4 
inches long ; the flowers not very large, but of a rich rose- or purplish-red, 
either scentless or with a disagreeable odour, and remarkable for their very 
slender spur, longer than the ovary, although that is long in proportion to 
the rest of the flower. Sepals lanceolate, spreading. Petals converging 
over the column. Lip broad, 3-lobed, the lobes equal or the middle one 
narrower. Anacamptis pyramidalis, Rich. 
On rather dry banks, and pastures, chiefly in limestone districts, in cen- 
tral and southern Europe, extending eastward to the Caucasus and north- 
ward to Denmark. Abundant in several parts of England and Ireland, and 
occurs in a few localities in southern Scotland. Fl. all summer. 
XII. HABENARIA. HABENARIA. 
Foliage, inflorescence, and spurred flowers of Orchis, but the anther- 
cells, instead of converging at the base, are either parallel or diverging. 
An extensive genus, chiefly distributed over Asia and America. The 
table of species is included above in that of Orchis. 
1. H. bifolia, Br. (fig. 1004). Butterfly Habenaria.—Tubers entire. 
Stem 1 to 1} feet high, with 2 rather large leaves at its base, varying from 
broadly ovate to oblong; the outer leaves very few, and usually reduced to 
sheathing scales. Flowers pure white or with a slight greenish tinge, 
rather large, and sweet-scented, in a loose spike from 3 to 6 or 8 inches 
long, with lanceolate bracts about the length of the ovary. Two lateral 
sepals spreading, the upper one arching over the column with the petals, 
Lip linear and entire, rather longer than the sepals, and usually greenish at 
the tip. Spur slender, twice as long as the ovary. Platanthera, Rich. 
In moist pastures, and meadows, on grassy slopes and open places in 
moist woods, throughout Europe and Russian Asia, from the Mediterranean 
to the Arctie Circle. Generally distributed over Britain. 7. all summer. 
It varies much in the breadth of the leaves as well as of the parts of the 
flower, and the extreme forms have been distinguished as species, the name 
of H. chlorantha, Bab., being given to those in which the flowers are 
large, usually very white (although the name means ‘ green-flowered’), and 
the anther-cells much more broadly diverging at the base. But inter- 
mediates passing gradually from the broad to the narrow forms have been 
frequently seen in great numbers at High Force in Teesdale in 1865. 
2. H. conopsea, Linn. (fig. 1005). Fragrant Habenaria.—Tubers 
palmate as in O. maculata. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, with linear or narrow- 
lanceolate leaves. Spike oblong or cylindrical, not so dense as in C. pyra- 
midalis. Flowers much like those of that species, but rather smaller, 
sweet-scented, and the slender spur is still longer. Gymnadenia conopsea, 
Br. 
