ANACAMP'TIS PYRAMl DA'LTS. 
PTRAMIDAI. ANACAMPTIS. 
Class. Order. 
GVNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ORCHIDACEvE. 
Native of 
Height, j Flowers in 
Duration 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
18 inches. j June, July. 
Perennial 
Dry jiastur. 
No. 1008. 
This genus is named from the Greek word, 
AN.AKAMPTO, to bend back ; in allusion to the posi- 
tion of its pollen masses. 
We have followed the talented Richard, in the 
division of the present plant from the genus 
Orchis — a division which is recognised by the 
most eminent botanists, still we would have chosen 
to see it remain as a section of our well-known 
Orchis ; and the more particularly so since of 
Anacamptis, as far as we at present know, there 
exists hut the present species. 
England possesses hut few of the many curious 
plants which belong to the Natural Order, Orchi- 
daceiE. Our moist pastures produce three or 
four species of Orchis, which are pretty generally 
known ; and the chalky districts of the south and 
west of England are the natural habitats of several 
others, known as the Bee Orchis, Fly Orchis, &c. 
These have curious flowers, representing the in- 
sects of which they bear the name ; all, however, 
are cast into the shade when we look on the im- 
mense variety of Orchids — those vegetable won- 
ders, the inhabitants of tropical climates. Some 
