PLend.ph. 21. ORCHIDEiE. 142. Platanthera. 207 
Stem 2 feet high, smooth, 2 or 3-leafed at bottom ; leaves 
ovate, linear or lanceolate; spike long; flowers about 12, 
white, fragrant ; lip green, hanging down, spur awlshape. 
0. minor. Stem 8 in. high; spur oblong; leaves 2 or 3 
together, narrow; flowers yellow, a month later. 
Orchis alba bi folia minor, calcari oblongo, Raii Syn. 380, 8. 
Testiculus psycodes, Ger. em. 211, 2. 
Orchis sphegodes, sive Testiculus vulpinus primus, Park. 1351. 
Gnat sutyrion. Small butterfly orchis. 
IX. 143. HERMINIUM. R. Brown. Musk-orchis* 
Ovary reclined at the tip ; perigonium rather bellshape, 
2 inner sepales long, 3-cleft; 3 outer ovate; tip 3-cut, 
hastate, with a very short baglike spur; gynostemium very 
short; cells of the anthers not narrowed below into a small 
sheath ; retinacle naked, rather large, with a striking snail- 
like hollow underneath, joined to a short blunt rostellum ; 
pollen in short, blunt-tailed masses, with only a few nearly 
cubical vesicles. — Bulbs roundish ; one horizontally remote, 
peduncled, smaller ; plant light green. 
Herminimn monorchis . One-tubercled musk-orchis . 
Radical leaves lanceolate. 
Orchis odorata moschata, sive Monorchis, Raii Syn. 378, 7. 
Orchis pusilla odorata, Park. 1354. 
Ophrys monorchis, Lin. S. P. 1342. 
Orchis monorchis, Allioni Pedem. 1882. 
Herminium monorchis, R. Brown in Ait . H. Kcw. 5, 191. 
Yellow sweet orchis. Musk orchis. 
Barren chalky pastures ; perennial; July. 
Stem 8 in. high ; radical leaves 2 or 3 ; spike close, many- 
flowered ; flowers yellowish green ; bractece as long as the 
ovary. 
B. Perigonium not galeate; pende 0; anther stipitate, 
cells not divided by a septulum ; retinacle 0 ; bursicle 0. 
X. 144. GOODYERA. R. Brown. Goody er. 
Ovary reclined at the tip; perigonium oblong arched; 
connivent below, bellying, rather spread out above; lip 
included, spurless, undivided, remarkably concavo-gibbous 
below; bent into a narrow', grooved strap above; gynoste- 
mium very short under the gynizus ; gynizus superficial, 
circular, rather flat; rostellum laminated, upright, very 
blunt; proscolla a short inverted parabola; anther stipitate, 
marginal behind, roundish, acuminate ; pollen in short 
