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O'PHRYS* * 
Linnean Class and Order. GYNA'NDRiAf, Mona'ndria. 
Natural Order. Orchi'dea:. Juss. — Tribe, Ophry'dea:. — 
Lind. Syn. pp. 256 & 259 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. pp. 262 & 265. — 
Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 412. — Sir J. E. Smith’s Eng. FI. v. iv. p. 3. 
Gen. Char. Pcriantliium [calyx and corolla %) superior. Sepals 
3 (figs, a, a, a.), oblong, ribbed, equal, spreading, sometimes co- 
loured. Petals 2 (b, b.), narrow, oblong, undivided, much smaller 
than the sepals, and generally coloured. Lip ( nectary of Linn.y (c.) 
without a spur, convex above, concave beneath, more or less lobed, 
usually hairy, and figured. Anther oblong, of 2 parallel cells, more 
or less close together over the stigma. Pollen-masses ( stamens of 
Linnaeus,) (fig. 1. f. and figs. 2 & 3) stalked, with 2 glands, each of 
which is enclosed in a separate pouch (fig. 1. g.) Germen (fig. 1. d.) 
inferior, oblong, curved, and furrowed. Style or Column (fig. 1. h.) 
short and thick, channelled in front. Stigma (fig. 1. e.) a moist 
cavity under the Anther. Capsule (fig. 4.) oblong, blunt, angular, 
with prominent ribs. Seeds very numerous, minute, coated. 
The spreading Sepals, convex Lip without a spur, and the Glands 
of the stalks of the Pollen-masses being each of them enclosed in a 
separate pouch, will distinguish this from other genera in the same 
class and order. 
Five species British. 
O'PHRYS API'FERA. Bee Ophrys, or Bee Orchis. 
Spec. Char. Lip the length of the calyx, tumid, with 5 re- 
flexed marginal lobes ; the terminal one awl-shaped ; the rest 
hairy above. Sepals coloured. Petals ciliated. 
Engl. Bot. t. 383. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. 66. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd. ed.) p. 
391. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. iii. p.938. Engl. FI. v.iv. p. 30. — With. (7th ed.) v.ii. 
p. 42 — Lindl.Syn. p. 262.— Ilook. Brit. FI. p. 375. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 
204. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 13 —Abbot’s FI. Bed. p. 195. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. ii. 
p. 426, and v. iii. p. 379. — Relh. FI. Cantab. (3rd ed.) p. 365. — FI. Devon, pp. 
144 & 131. — Rev. G. E. Smith’s PI. of S. Kent, p. 52. t. 4. f. 10 (it 11. — Loud. 
Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. i p. 398. f. 178. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 256. — Mack. Catal. 
of PI. of Ireland, p. 76. — Ophrys insectifera. i. Linn. Sp. PI. 1343. — Orchis 
fuciflora, galea et alis purpurascentibus, Ray’s Syn. p.379. — Testiculus 
Vulpinus secundus Sphegodes, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 212. 
Localities. — I n meadows and pastures, especially on a chalky or limestone 
soil. — Oxfordshire; Penley Hangings. Near Nuffield. Near Mungewell. 
I have twice observed a few plants of this Ophrys near the old load going over 
the south side of Shotover-hill. W. B. — Berks; On Streatley Hills. Near 
some old stone-pits about half a mile south-west of South Hinksey Plentiful 
in the same place in 1831. Near Appleton. In a Plantation on the right 
hand side of the road going from Hurley Bottom to Henley, and in a wood 
near the Druid’s Temple, Park Place near Henley. — Bedfordshire; Hawnes, 
Barton, and Thurleigh. — Bucks; On the Chalk-hill near Hedsor Wharf. In 
a, a, a. Sepals, or Leaves of the Calyx. — b, b. Petals. — c. Labellum. — 
Fig. 1. d. Germen. e. Stigma, f. Pollen-masses, g. Pouches or Cells of the 
Anther, h. Style or Column. — Fig. 2. A Pollen-mass. — Fig. 3. The same 
magnified. — Fig. 4. Capsule. — Fig. 5. Root. 
* From ophrus, Gr. the eye-brow, one species of which is said to have been 
used by the ancients, either to blacken the eye-brows or to make them grow. 
t The 20th class in the Linnean Artificial System; it comprehends those 
plants which have perfect flowers, with the stamens united with, or growing out 
of, the Pistil ; either proceeding from the Germen, as in Aristolochia, t. 28, 
or from the style, as in the Orchidece, } See Galanthus, p. 33. note. I 
