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PL end. ph. 21. ORCHIDEiE. 138. Orchis. 
Chalky pastures ; perennial; June. 
Scape 8 in. high, angular; Leaves 4 or 6, lanceolate, 
not spotted ; spike short, close, many-flowered ; brae tea 
ovate, purple; jiowers small, brown, greenish white on the 
inside; spur blunt, compressed; lip white, with elevated 
spots. 
7. Orchis mascula, Male orchis . 
hip 3-lobed, crenulate, obtuse; middle lobe 2-cut; sepales 
pointed, 2 inner upright, spread; outer reflexed, 3-ribbed; 
spur conical, ascending, as long as the germen. 
Orchis morio mas, foliis maculatis, Rail Syn. 376, 3 j Park. 1346. 
Cynosorchis morio mas, Ger. em. 268. 
Orchis mascula, Lin. S. P. 1333. 
M ale fool-stones. 
Woods and pastures; perennial; April and May. 
Root 2-tubercled ; scape 2 feet high ; leaves broad, spotted 
with dark purple ; bractece lanceolate, coloured, scarcely 
as long as the ovary ; flower uniformly coloured ; spur blunt, 
horizontal ; lip hanging down, base white with a few purple 
spots .—Roof, as being the most abundant species, is made 
into salep, by being taken up when the stalks begin to fall, 
the new tubercles separated, washed, and the outer thin 
skin taken off; the prepared tubercles are then spread upon 
a tin plate, and stoved for 8 or 10 minutes in a heat suf- 
ficient to bake bread ; by which they acquire a semitrans- 
parency like horn, without much diminution in size. Salep 
is one of the most nutritive species of food known at pre- 
sent, and extremely useful in travelling and in sea voyages. 
It is probable the other species of this genus might be pre^ 
pared in the same manner, 
8. Orchis morio. Fool orchis , 
Lip 3-lobed ; lobes crenate, middle lobe nicked ; sepales 
ascending, obtuse; spur conical, ascending, shorter than 
the ovary. 
Orchis morio fcpmina, Rati Syn. 377, 4; Park. 1347, 
Cynosorchis morio fcemina, Ger.etn. 208. 
Orchis morio, Lin. S. P. 1333. 
Female fool-stones. 
Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May and June. 
Root 2-tubercled; scape 12 in. high; leaves lanceolate ; 
spike loose, 12-flowered; bractece lanceolate, membrana- 
ceous, coloured ; Jiowers purple ; sepales blunt ; 3 upper 
with 3 or 5 greenish ribs; spur bent, thickened at the 
tip ; lip dilated, middle lobe spotted. 
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