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not at the top, like Orchis. We have but one 
fpecies of this plant, 
■ Pfeudo-orchis hifclia faluftris^ R. 382. Chama- 
orchis lilifolio^ C. 84. laUfolio Zelandi^, P. 1354. 
Dwarf Orchis of Zealand and Holland. In wet mar- 
Ihy places. 
Nidus avis, Birds-neft. The root is compofed 
of thick, fucculent, bridly fibres, difpofed in the 
form of a bird’s neft : It has fometimes a fingle 
ftalk, fometimes two or three, a foot or a cubit 
. high, and whitifh they are cloathed on the upper 
part, with hollow, tranfparent, ftriated, blunt- 
pointed, heart-fafhioned leaves. On the top 
grows a thyrfe of flowers, like thofe of Orchis, 
of a pale colour, like decay’d leaves : The creft 
is fmall, under which appears a fhort pointal, 
with whitifh chives, encompalTed by two leaves 
at the bafe : The beard is large, and pofleires 
the bottom of the flower. The tafte of the. 
whole plant is abominably bitter. It flowers in 
May, We have but one fpecies of this plant, viz,. 
Nidus avis y R. 382. Orchis abortiva rufa^ .ftve 
Nidus avis P. 1362. Orchis abortiva fufca^ C. 87- 
Mifhapen Orchis, or Birds Neft. By the fide of the 
lane near Honeybee yate, near Kendal^ Wejlmoreland-f, 
Limodorum, Purple Birds Neft. The ftalk is ‘ 
about a foot high, wrapped round with many 
leaves, like fo many fheaths *, and bears a fpike 
of tetrapetalous flowers : The upper petal of 
each flower ends in a horn, and a probofcis ap- 
pears in the middle, to which grow two flender 
beards : Under the flowers are long ftriated heads, 
full of fmall feed, like that of Orchis : The root 
■ confifts of long, thick, oblique fibres. The 
whole plant is of a deep purple oj Violet colour. 
It differs from Orchis m having a fibrous root ; 
from Hellebore, in having a fpur to the flower ; 
and from Ophris, in its leaves growing alter-. 
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