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unfavourable, as favourable to his whiles. 
The early fpotted orchis is eafily diftinguimed 
from every other known fpecies ; it's fpotted 
leaves and large bright purple flowers will 
generally be marks fufficient ; but mould the 
young botanift pleafe himfelf with the luppo- 
fition of having gathered a variety of kinds of 
orchis morio, he would be much difappointed 
to find, on examination, that they belonged 
to one fpecies only; an inftance which mows 
how little to be relied on are the colours of 
the corol, which in this fpecies affumes all 
changes of colour, from a deep purple to a 
white. Yet, under all it's varieties, this flower 
is diftin«;uifhed from all other britifh orchifes 
by retaining more or lefs ftrongly the cha- 
racter of having it's two outermoft petals 
marked with green parallel lines. In this 
orchis the anthers are of a green colour. 
There are ten diftinci britim fpecies of the 
real orchis • but by common obfervers fome 
other genera have been confounded with theme, 
which ought not to have been fa. Linneus has 
diftinguifhed the different genera of thefe cu- 
rious plants by the form of their nectaries. The 
flower commonly known by the name of 
bee orchis belongs to the genus of 6phrys r and 
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