The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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We have it in dry paftures but not common. 
It Bowers in Auguft. 
- C.'BiuKmi: culhk friorchis alia odomta. Our 
people. Ladies onUs, and Ladies traces. 
Authors fpeak of a leffer kind, but it is only 
a variety ; and of a fnaall bulbous orchis, wliich is 
in Che fame manner a variety of the preceding. 
10. Common Man-Orchis. 
Orchis flaribus fubcimreis. 
' The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, oblong, and 
of a deep green. 
The ftalk is round, and of a pale green, and 
is a foot high. 
The flowers are outwardly of a duflty greyifli 
colour; and are of apalerhue, and tinged more or 
lefs with red within. Fancy has fuppofed the re- 
prefentation of a human body, arms, and legs, 
in this flower ; whence it has obtained the name 
wan-orchis ; but the refemblance is far-fetched. 
C. Bauhin'e calls it Cym-orchis lalijolia hicante 
cucullo 'najcr. 
We have it in dry paftures, flowering m June. 
J I. Blackilh flowered Man-Orchis. 
Orchis pre majorc furpuro iiigricaiite. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a ftrong 
green. 
The ftalk is a foot and half high. 
The flowers are large; and they ftand in a 
great, thick fpike at the top. 
The upper part of the flower is of a blackifli 
purple : the lower part is fuppofed to have a re- 
prefentation of a human body, with the arms 
and legs ; and this part is whitifli, and covered 
with reddidi or purplifli hairs. 
We have it on chalky hills. It flowers in 
June. 
J. Bauhinc calls it Orchis magna latifoKa. 
J 2. Grcenifli Man-Orchis. 
Orchis flare fxbviridi. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are numerous, broad, and of a 
deep green. 
- The ftalk is a foot and half high. 
The Bowers terminate it in a long, loofe flen- 
der fpike : they have the fame refemblance of the 
human form with the preceding ; and they are 
of a greenifti colour, tinged in fome parts with 
brown. 
We have it on chalky hills, flowering m June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis flore midi hominis 
formam reprefentante fccmina. Others, Orchis Or- 
eadcs furaina. 
13. The Fly-Orchis. 
Orchis viyodes minor. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a duflty 
creen. . , 
The ftalk is round, flendcr, upright, and a 
foot high. 
The flowers ftand at the top in a loofe fpike : 
they are of a very Angular form, reprefenting not 
unaptly the head, body, and wings, of a fly. 
The upper part of the flower is grcenifli ; the 
lower part reprefenting the body is of a deep 
duflcy brown. 
We have it on chalk hills. It flowers in 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis myodes galea et alis 
herbidis. Others, Myodes minor. 
14. The Greater Fly-Orchis. 
Orchis myodes major. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are broad, fliort, and of a deep 
green. 
The ftalk is two feet high, and confidcrably 
thick. 
The flowers ftand on the top in a loofe fpike : 
they are large, and of a duflcy colour, paler at 
the top : they reprefent very aptly fo many large 
flies! 
We have it in dry paftures, but not common. 
It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis miifcvn referens major: 
15. The Great Bee-Orchis. 
Orchis fucijiora major. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a deep 
green. 
The ftalk is a foot high ; and the flowers ftand 
at the top in a kind of loofe fpike. 
They are large, and in the higheft degree An- 
gular and beautiful : they fo perfeftly reprefent the 
fmaller kind of humble bee, that one might fttike 
at them, fuppofing them bees fitting on the plant. 
The upcer part, reprefenting the head, is whitifli ; 
the fide-pieces, reprefenting wings, are purplifli ; 
and the body is brown, variegated in an elegant 
manner with lines and ftreaks of yellow. 
The colours are in diflierent foils fomewhat un- 
ceitain, but the form is conftant. 
We have it in chalk-pits. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orchis fucum referens major 
foliolis fuperioribtts caudidis et fiirpurafcentibus. 
16. The Bee-Orchis, with green wings; 
Orchis fiiciflora femiginea. 
The root is a double bulb. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a deep green. 
The ftalk is a foot high, and at its top the 
flowers ftand in a loofe fpike. They very happily 
reprefent the common bee : they are hairy, and 
of a duflcy, variegated brown in the body or 
lower -part'; and the upper parts, forming the 
head and wings, are of a pale, grcenifli hue, 
fometimes tinged lightly with flefti-colour or 
white. 
We have it in dry paftures, flowering in the 
beginning of May- 
C. Bauhine calis it Orchis fucum referens colore 
rubiginofo. 
17. The 
