ORCHIDACEJi:. 



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XIII. ACERAS. ACERAS. 



Flowers and habit of an Orchis, except that there is no spur what- 

 ever to the lip. 



A genus of very few species, from Europe, Asia, and northern 

 Africa. 



1. Man Aceras. Aceras anthropophora, Br. (Fig. 997.) 



{Ophrys, Eng. Bot. t. 29. Man- Orchis.) 



A rather small species, seldom above 

 8 or 9 inches high, with entire tubers ; 

 the leaves varying from ovate to oblong 

 or nearly lanceolate. Spike slender, 2 

 to 4 inches long. Flowers of a dull yel- 

 lowish-green ; the sepals converging 

 over the column and petals as in the 

 lizard Orchis, but very much smaller. 

 Lip narrow-linear, twice as long as the 

 sepals, and fancifully compared to a 

 hanging man, two lateral lobes repre- 

 senting his arms, and the middle one, 

 which is longer and 2-cleft, his body 

 and legs. 



In dry pastures, in southern Europe, 

 more sparingly dispersed over western 

 Germany and France. In Britain, only 

 in eastern England. Fl. early summer. 



Fig. 997. 



XIY. HSEMINIUM. HERMINIUM. 



Small-flowered plants, nearly allied to Orchis, 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 re- 

 gions of Europe and Asia. 



1. Musk Her minium. Her minium Monorchis, Br. 

 (Fig. 998.) 



{Ophrys, Eng. Bot. t. 71. Mush -Orchis.) 



A slender plant, seldom above 6 inches high, with 2 or very seldom 



