Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. i 
214 
The Defer iftion. 
1 nr He white handed Orchis or Satyrion hath long and large leaues, fpotted and darticd 
I- withblackefpots, from the which doth rife vp a fmall fragile or brittle ftalkeot two 
X hands high, hauing at the top a bufli or fpoky tuft ofwhite floures, like in ftape to 
thofeofi’aWC/ir//?i,whereofthisisakinde. Therootisthicke,fat,and full of iuyee, falhio- 
ned like the hand and fingers ofa man, with fome tough and fat firings faftnedto thevpperpart 
2 Red handed Satyrion is a fmall low andbafe herbe, hauing a fmall tender ftalke let with 
two or three fmall leaues, like vntothofe of the Leeke,butfhorter. The floure groweth at the 
top tuft fafhion, of a glittering red colour, witharootfalhionedlikean hand, but letter than the 
3 Serapia’s ftones,ormarifh Satyrion hath a thicke knobby root,diuided into fingers like 
thofeof Palma whercofitis akindc : from which rife thicke fat and fpongeous ftalkes, fee 
with broad leaues like thofe of Plantaine, but much longer, euen to the top of the tuft of floures * 
but the higher they rife toward the top the fmaller they are. The floure confifteth of many fmall 
hooded floures fomevvhatwhitifh, fpotted within with deepe purple fpots j the backfide of thefe 
little floures are V iolet mixed with purple . 
rj: j Serbia Bttrachites tltcreu 
The other Frog Satyrion. 
4 Fenny Satyrion (or Serapia’s ftones) differeth little from the former, fauing that the leaues 
are fmaller, and fomcwhatfpotted,and the tuft of floures hath not fo manygreene leaues, nor fo 
long, mixed with the floures,neitherare they altogether of fo darke orpurplilh a colour as the for- 
mer. The roots are like thofe of the laftdrfcribcd. . , 
5 Mountaine Orchis or Satyrion hath thicke fat and knobby roots , the one of them for the 
mod part being handed, and the other long. It growes like the former in ftalkes, leaues, and floures, 
but is fomewhat bigger, with the leaues fmoother, and more {hining. 
6 Clouc Satyrion, or fvveet fmelling Orchis , hath flat and thicke roots diuided into fingers 
