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HERMI'NIUM* * 
Linnean Class and Order. Gyna'ndria f , Mona'ndria. 
Natural Order. Orchi'de.®, Linn. — Juss. Gen. PI. p ; 64. — 
Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 81 ; Engl. FI. v. iv. p. 3. — Lindl. Syn. p. 256 ; 
Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 262. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 412. — 
Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 536. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 274. — Macr. Man- 
Br. Bot. p. 224. — Hook. Br. FI. (4th edit.) p. 425. — Palmares ; 
order, Musales ; sect. Orchidin^e ; type, Orchidace.® ; Burn. 
Outl. of Bot. v. i. pp. 391, 437, 458, & 461. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium J f calyx and corolla ) (see fig. 2.) 
superior. Sepals 3, (fig. 1. c.c.c.) egg-shaped, concave, equal, 
spreading, permanent. 'Petals 2, (fig. 1. d.d.) fleshy, egg-shaped, 
flat, spreading, more or less deeply 3-lobed, acute, nearly as long 
as the sepals. Lip ( Nectary ) (fig. 1, c. and fig. 3.) without a spur, 
deeply 3-lobed, spreading like the petals, but rather longer, slightly 
tumid at the base underneath. Anthers roundish, of 2 cells close 
together, over the stigma (see fig. 3.), depositing the globular, 
stalked granulated masses of pollen (fig. 4.), by their stalks, upon 
two separate naked glands. Germen (see fig. 1, b.) elliptic-oblong, 
twisted, furrowed. Style short and thick. Stigma a moist cavity 
in front. Capsule (fig. 5.) egg-oblong, triangular, nearly straight. 
Seeds very numerous. 
The herbaceous spreading perianthium ; the short, lobed lip, 
without a spur ; the terminal anther, with parallel lobes ; and the 
naked, distinct glands of the stalks of the pollen masses ; will dis- 
tinguish this from other genera in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
HERMI'NIUM MONO'RCHIS. One-tubercled Musk-Orchis. 
Green Musk-Orchis. Yellow Sweet-Orchis. 
Spec. Char. Root-leaves 2, spear-shaped. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 1. 138. — Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. (2nd ed.) vol.v. p. 191. — 
Sm. Engl. FI. v. iv. p.27. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 207. — Lindl. Syn. p. 263. — 
Hook. Brit. FI. p.374. — Mac. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 227. — Rev. G. E. Smith’s PI. 
of South Kent, p. 51. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p.256. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 49. — 
Ophrys Monorchis, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1342. — Eng. Bot. t. 71. — Curt. Br. Ent. v. v. 
t.237. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p.390. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iv. pt. i. p. 61. — Sm. 
FI. Brit. v. iii. p. 936. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 40. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 
364. — Purt. Midi. FI. v.iii. p.66. — Orchis odorata moschata, sive Monorchis, 
Ray’s Syn. p.378. — Rudb. Camp. Elys. v. ii. p.207. f. 1. — Blackst. Spec. Bot. 
p. 65. — Monorchis montana minima, flore ohsoleto vix conspicuo, Mich. Gen. 
p. 30. t. 26. f. E. F. — Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 218. 
Localities. — On banks, hillocks, and barren pastures, in a chalky soil, but 
not common. — Oxfordsh. Found in Stokenchurch Woods, by the late John 
Oglander, Esq. of Merton College, Oxford ; July 24, 1920. — In Berkshire : 
Engl. FI. — Bucks; In a chalk-pit by the road-side at Gerard’s Cross, plenti- 
fully: Blackstone. — Near Great Kimble; July, 1821: Miss Mainstone. — 
Fig. 1. A separate Flower ; a. the bractea ; b. the Germen ; c. c. C. the Sepals; 
d. d. the Petals ; e. the Lip. — Fig. 2. A front view of the same. — Fig. 3. Lip, 
Column, and Anthers. — Fig. 4. Pollen Masses. — Fig. 5. Capsule. — Figs. 2, 3, & 4. 
magnified. 
* From ermin, or erminos, Gr. fulcrum tori; in allusion either to the thick, 
though short, column of the flower, or to the stem or scape of the flowers. Hooker, 
t Sec folio 8, note t. t Sec folio 33, note }. 
