C 27a ) 
‘ • to which adhere valves : The feed is foall like 
duft. The fpecies are : 
I . Bifolhim majus feu Ophris major quihufdam^ R. 
•385. Bifolium fylvejire vulgar P. 504. Ophris 
bifolia^ G. 326, C. 87. Common Twayblade. In 
woods and thickets. The flowers are deftitute of 
Ipurs, dilpofed in a beautiful thyrfe, of an herbace- 
ous colour, fomething refembling gnats, and com- 
pofed of fix petals, with a long bifid beard, a crefl 
oppofite to it, and two wings and two ears on which 
the helmet refts : The'ftalk is fingle, round, fometimes 
a foot, or a cubit high, and hairy : It has only two 
nervous leaves, like thofe of Plantain, about the 
middle of the ftalk, one rifing out of the bofom of 
the other. 
2. Bifolium minimum^ R. 385. Ophris minima^ 
C. 87, Pr. 31. The Lead: Twayblade. On Cock- 
ley fell, in Loytgjledale^ about 100 yards 'Veflward 
from the dowps among the ling, fix miles from 
Kendal \ alfo on the moor, on the left-hand of the 
high road' from Kendal to Shap^ near the DemmingSy 
Wefimor eland It rifes about fix or eight inches 
high : The leaves are fmall, about half an inch broad, 
and fhaped like a heart. 
3. Bifolium paluftrOy R. 385, P. 505. Marfh 
Twayblade, on boggy and fenny grounds, near 
Qamlingay in Cambridgefhire. It differs from the 
Common Twayblade in its fmallnefs, and in that it is 
fometimes three-leav’d ; alfo in the greennefs and 
fmoothnefs of its leaves •, its fpike is much lefs, and 
its roots creep under the ground. 
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