20 6 14*1. Entaticus. 21. ORCHIDEZE. PLend.ph. 
(2. major . Spike dense, whitish. 
Orchis palmata, thyrso specioso longo, dense stipato, ex viridi albente, 
Dillen in Rati Syn. 382, 24. 
2. Entaticus viridis . Green hand-orchis . 
Spur short, purselike; lip linear, 3-toothed; side hies 
pointed ; middle lobe very short ; bractece half as long again 
as the flowers. 
Orchis palmata minor flore luteo-viridi, Raii Syn. 381,22. 
Serapias batrachytes altera, Ger. em. 224. 
Orchis palmata batrachytes vel myodes, Park. 1358. 
Satyrium viride, Lin. S. P. 1338. 
Orchis viridis, Salisb. Prod. 7. 
JIabenaria viridis. Brown in Ait. H. Kew. 5, 191. 
Gymnadenia viridis, Richard Man. Mm. 4, 57. 
Frog satyrion. Frog orchis . Green hand-orchis. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; June to August. 
Bulb palmate; stem 12 in. high, leafy; leaves linear** 
ovate, upper lanceolate ; spike loose ; flowers dull greenish ; 
tipped with brownish purple ; ovary linear-ovate, yellowish 
green or brown. 
VIII. 14*2. PLATANTHERA. Richard. Fox-stones . 
Perigonium arched ; Up spurred, narrow strap-like, un- 
divided; cells of the anther widely distant, narrowed below, 
and the broad gynizus being placed between them separates 
them widely apart ; pollen in long-tailed masses ; vesicles 
very numerous, very minute, linear-prismatic ; retinacle 
naked, orbiculate, peltate with a very short stalk, not ter- 
minating the caudicle as usual, but lodged as it were on the 
side and within ; gynizus appearing as grown to the bottom 
of the connective, short and rounded, the lower part not 
going beyond the opening of the spur ; rostellum none. — 
Root 2-tuberculate ; leaves radical, 2 or 3 ; flowers white, 
fragrant ; bractece lanceolate. 
Platanthera bifolia. Two-leafed fox-stones . 
Orchis hermaphroditica bifolia, Raii Syn. 380, 17. 
Orchis hermaphroditica, Ger. em. 211, 1. 
Orchis serapias bifolia vel tri folia minor, Park. 1350. 
Orchis bi folia, Lin. S. P. 1331. 
Orchis alba, Lamarck FI. Fr. 3, 502. 
Habenaria bi folia, Brown in Ait. II. Kew. 5, 193. 
Platanthera bifolia, Richard Mem. Mus. 4,57. 
Butterfly satyrion. 
Woods and thickets; perennial ; May and June. 
