446 THE ORCHID FAMILY. [Aceras. 
Spike slender, 2 to 4. inches long. Flowers ofa dull yellowish-green ; the 
sepals converging over the column and petals as in Orchis hircina, but 
very much smaller. Lip narrow-linear, twice as long as the sepals, and 
fancifully compared to a hanging man, the lateral lobes representing his 
arms, and the mid¢cle one, which is longer and 2-cleft, his body and legs. 
In dry pastures, in southern Europe, rarer in western Germany and France. 
In Britain, only in eastern England. Jl. early summer. 
XIV. HERMINIUM. HERMINIUM. 
Small-flowered plants, nearly allied to Orehis, but the perianth has no 
spur, and the anther-cells are distant at their base, the glands of the stalks 
of the pollen-masses protruding below the cells. 
A genus of very few species, from the high northern or alpine regions 
of Kurope and Asia. 
1, H.'Wonorchis, Br, (fig. 1010). Musk Hermintum, Musk Orchis.— 
A slender plant, seldom above 6 inches high, with 2 or very seldom 3 
oblong or lanceolate, 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, yellow- 
ish-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 pouck at the 
base, but not spurred, with three narrow entire lobes. 
In hilly pastures, in central, northern, Arctic, and the mountains of south 
ern 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. summer. 7 
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 an 
insect. Anther-cells distant at the base, protruding below the rest of the 
anther in two 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. Sepalsusually pink . 1. O. apifera. 
Lip slightly lobed, the edges scarcely turned under. Sepals . 
green . : - : ‘ : é P ‘ ‘ , . 2 O. aranifera. 
Lip of the perianth oblong, considerably longer than the sepals . 3. O. muscifera, 
1, O.apifera, Huds, (fig. 1011). Bee Ophrys.—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, 
