Ophrys Anthropophora. Man Ophrvs. 
OPHRYS Linn. Gen. PI. Gynandria Diandsua. 
A redarium fubtus fubcarinatum. 
RaiiSyn. Gen. 26. Herb* Bdrbosis affines. 
0raRYS ^ 
FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 390. 
ORCHIS radicibus fubrotundis, fpica longa, flore inermi, labello perangufto quadrifido. Hull. Hiji. 
n. 1264. 
ORCHIS anthropophora oreades. Col. Ecpb. 1. 320. Rail. Syn. ed. 3. p. 379. Park. 1348. 7 - 
ORCHIS flore nudi hominis effigiem reprefentans femina. Bauh.Pin.p. 82. Vaill.Par.p. 147. t.xxxu 
fis- 2 °- 
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RADIX bulbi duo, oblongi, odorati. § ROOT two oblong bulbs, odoriferous. 
SCAPUS pedalis et ultra, foliofus, teres, glaber, fu- f STALK a foot or more high, leafy, round, fmooth, 
perne fubangulofus. | Highly angular above. 
FOLIA radicalia in florente planta erefliufcula, ovato- 0 LEAVES next the root in the flowering plant nearly 
oblonga, obtufiufcula, glaberrima, pallide £> upright, ovato-oblong, fomewhat obtule, 
viridia, caulina pauca, anguftiora. 0 perfe&ly fmooth, of a pale green colour, 
£> thofe of the Halk few and more narrow. 
FLORES numerofi conferti, luteo virefeentes, in | FLOWERS numerous, growing thickly together, of 
fpica fubpalmari. K a yellowifli green colour, in a fpike about a 
* hand’s-breadth in length. 
BRACTE 7 E lanceolato-acuminate, virides, germine 
breviores. Jig. 1 . 
COROLLA : Petala quinque viridia, in galeam con- 
niventia, flg. 3, 4. tria exteriora ovata, ob- 
tufa, marginibus rufis, duo interiora-linearia : 
Nedlarii labellum petalis longius dependens, 
flavefeens, in quibufdam penitus rufefeens, 
tripartitum, laciniis linearibus, lateralibus fub- 
divergentibus, intermedia elongata bifida, 
fi&- 5 > 6 > P au l° infra ftigma quod profunde 
excavatum eft, duae funt glandula; pellucidas, 
nitidas, valde confpicuas. 
STAMINA: Filamenta 2 breviflima; Anthers | 
flavae, Jig. 7. 
) FLORAL-LEAVES lanceolate, tapering to a point, 
green, fhorter than the germen. Jig. 1 . 
COROLLA: five Petals, of a green colour, doling 
fo as to form a hood. Jig. 3, 4 ; the three outer- 
raoft ovate, obtufe, their edges reddifh brown, 
the two innermofl linear : the lip of the nec- 
tary longer than the petals, hanging down, 
yellowifli, in fome wholly reddilh brown, di- 
vided into three fegments, which are linear, 
the fide ones diverging fomewhat, the middle 
one elongated and bind. Jig. 5, 6 ; a little be- 
low the ftigma, which is deeply hollowed out, 
are two pellucid fhining glands, very con- 
fpicuous. 
STAMINA: two Filaments very fhort; Anther.® 
yellow, Jig. 7. 
PISTILLUM: Germen teres, viride, tortuofum,j%. 2. 0 PISTILLUM: Germen round, green, twilled,^. 2. 
The flowers of this fpecies have been confidered as bearing fome fimilitude to the effigies of a man, whence 
its name : the old authors in their figures of it have improved on this refemblance, at the expence of truth. 
Vid. Parkinson, and others. 
It is a plant common to the more fouthern parts of Europe, and is found chiefly on calcareous foils, with us 
principally in dry paftures and old chalk pits, in fuch fituations it is one of the moll common of the tribe in 
Kent ; we have found it alfo plentifully in the chalk pits about Leatherhead and elfewhere. 
It varies in fize, and in the colour of its flowers, from yellow green to bright ferruginous ; flowers in May and 
June, and is more eafily cultivated than many others of the fame genus. 1 
The root, and indeed the whole plant, emits a flrong odour. 
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