«i6 GYNANDRIADIANDRIA. 
with a bilocular duplicature of the upper lip of the 
hedtarium. 1 he germen is oblong and twifted, the flyie 
is very fhort and grows to the upper lip of the nedtari- 
um, and the ftigma is comprelfed and obtufe. The cap- 
fule is oblong, unilocular, and has three keel-fhaped 
valves opening on the three fides, but joined at the top 
and bottom, and filled with very fmali feeds like dull. 
Such as have undivided hulhs or tefiiculated roots. 
Bifolia, Butterfly Orchis with undivided roots, the lip 
of the ne^larium entire and lanceolated ; a very long 
horn, and patent petals. W ilson fays the flalk is ge- 
nerally about a foot high, and encompaffed with narrow 
and fmaller leaves. The flowers are difpofed into a 
thyrfe of a fweet fmell, and in fhape refemble a hutter-fly 
with expanded wings. In paftures and thickets. Per, 
May,, June, 
Mafcula, Male Fool Stones * with undivided roots, 
the lip of the nedtarium cut into four points and crenu- 
lated, and the hinder part of the petals reflex, BYo, Suec, 
795. 1 he flowers are of a purple colour, and the lip 
is marked on the infide with a few dark fpots. In 
meadows and paffures. Per, Flay, 
Morio , ' 
* This is the fpecies of Orchis mentioned in the Oedrgical EJfajSy 
as the moll proper for making Salep or Saloup, which for the enter- 
tainment of the curious, as I have found it to anfwer, I iliall infert 
in this place, 
“ S A LE P is a preparation of the roots of the Orchis or Dog-Stones ^ 
cf which many fpecies are enumerated bv botanical writers. The 
ORCHIS MASCULA, Linn. Sp. PL is themoft valued, altho’ the 
roots of fome of the palmaced forts, particularly of the ORCHIS 
L ATIFO LI A, are found to anfwer almoft equally well. This 
plant flouriflies in various parts of Europe an<l Afia, and grows in 
cur own country fpontancoully, and in great abundance. It is af- 
fiduoufly cultivated in the call, and the root of it forms a confide- 
lable part of the diet of the inhabitants of Turkey, Perjia, and Syria, 
A dry and very fertile foil is bell adapted to its giowth. 
