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Ophrts spiralis. Ladies Traces. 
OPHRYS Lin. Gen . PL GynandriA DiandRIAi 
Nettarium fubtus fubcarinatum. 
Raii Syn. Gen . 21. Herb.® radice bulbosa PRaEbiT^i 
OPHRYS fpiralis bulbis aggregatis oblongis, catile fubfoliofo, floribus fecundis, nettarii labio indivifo 
crenato. Lin. Syji . Vegetal, p . 677. Sp. PL 1340. 
EPIPACTIS bulbis cylindricis*. fpica fpirali, labello crenulato. Haller. Hiff. n. 1294. 
SERAPIAS fpiralis. Scopoli F lor. Cam. n. 1125. 
ORCHIS fpiralis alba odorata. L B. II. 769. 
TRIORCHIS alba odorata minor, atque etiam major. Bauhin. Pin. 84. 
TRIORCHIS. Ger. emac. 218. Parkins. 1354 Raii Syn. v. 378. Triple Ladies Traces. Hudfon Fl. 
Angl. p. 388. 
RADIX fit uno, duobus, tribus, quatuorve bulbis, ob- 
longis, acuminatis, villofis. 
FOLIA radicalia quatuor, et ultra, fupra terram exp&hfa,’ 
ovata, acuta, hinc convexa, inde cava, lemun- i 
«iam lata, ad lentem punftata, obfolete ner-: 
wTa. 
SCAPUS fpithamaeus, foliofus, foliis vaginantibus, pu-j 
befcentibus, margine membranaceis. . 
FLORES ex albo-virefcentes, odorati, quindecim et: 
ultra, Jpiree modo dijpofiii. \ 
BR ACTAEA oblonga, acuminata, cava, villofa, germi- i 
nis cum dimidio floris longitudine, fig. 1 . ' 
PETALA quinque, alba, fubasqualia, villofula, tria fu- ■ 
periora fubcoadunata, reda, duo lateralia cari- j 
nata, lanceolata, fig. 2, 3.; labellum Nettani' 
obtufum, crenulatum, intus viridulum, conca-i 
vum,/#. 4. aud.y%. 5. i 
GERMEN feffile, ovatum, lineis duabus lateralibus ex- • 
tautibus notatum, fig. 6. 
ROOT confifts of one, two, three, or four oblong, 
pointed, villous bulbs. 
LEAVES next the root four, or more, fpread out on the 
ground, ovate, pointed, convex on one fide, 
and concave on the other, half an inch in 
breadth, dotted when magnified, and faintly 
ribbed. 
STALK fix or feven inches high, leafy, leaves fheathy, 
downy, and membranous at the edge. 
; FLOWERS of a greenifh white colour, fragrant, fifteen 
• and more in number, Jpirally difpofed. 
: FLORAL- LEAF oblong, pointed, hollow, villous, of 
the length of the germen, and half the flower, 
; 1 •' 
PETALS five, white, nearly equal, fomewhat villous, 
the three uppermoft very flightly conne&ed 
together, flraight, the two fide ones keeled and 
lanceolate, fig. 2, 3.; the lip of the Nettary 
blunt, finely notched, green within and hol- 
low, fig. 4. magnified, fig. 5. 
GERMEN feflile, ovate, marked with two protuberant 
fide lines, fig. 6. 
The Rev. Dr. Goodenough, of Ealing, kindly communicated to us this plant, having found it fparingly on 
Ilanwel Heath , near Ealing: though fcarcewith us, in many parts of England, efpecially the more northern it is 
not uncommon. It grows in paftures, both dry and moift, and does not particularly affedl a chalky foil. In the garden 
it grows more readily than moft of its tribe, and flowers later, its ufual month of blowing being September 
. The protuberant germina, placed regularly one above another, fomewhat referable plaited hair, whence, perhaps 
its name of Ladies traces. The flowers are fragrant, and, by the fpiral manner in which they grow form a 
curious fpecihc chara&er. ° ’ 
Baron Hali.er, who has taken infinite pains with the plants of this tribe, has not very happily expreffed this 
fpecies; bis artill appears to have had an unnatural lpecimen to copy from. 1 3 3 
The Ladies Traces varies much in fize as well as in the number of its roots. 
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