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Mono, Female Fool Stones with undivided roots, the 
lip of the nedarium quadrifid and crenuiated, the horn 
obtufe, and aii the petals connivent. The wings are 
broad, hollow, and llriated with greenifh lines. In 
meadows and mcifl paftures. Per. May., Jime. 
Pyramidalis. Purple late flowering Orchis with undivid- 
ed bulbs, the lip of the neclarium trind and entire; the 
horn long and the petals lanceolated: The lip of the 
flower is fhaped like an ear, and not fpotted, and the 
fpurs are very long and refleded. In dry paifures fre- 
quently. Per. June-, July. 
Ujiulata. Little purple-flowered Orchis with undivided 
bulbs, the lip of the nedarium quadrifid, having rough 
fpotie, an obtufe horn, and diflind petals. In dry bar- 
ren paflures. Per, May., June, 
Wilson defcribes this plant as follows: The dowers 
are thick fet on a fliort fpike, with a very fliort green- 
ifh fpur, a ruil-coloured crefr, and wings either totally 
greenifh, or half purplifli, and redfpeckled Vvithin: The 
beard is fomewhat like a little quadrupede, divided into 
three or four parts, winged, quite white without, and 
marked with many deep purple fpecks within. The 
flowers have yellow fummits in the opening. 
F f. Coriopliora, 
An ingenious friend of mine, in order to colled: the feed, tranf- 
planted a number of the Orchi/es into a meadow, wheie he had 
prepared a bed well manured for their reception. The next ipring 
few of them appeared, and not one came to maturity; their rcots 
being black and half rotten. The fame gentleman informs me, 
that he has never been able to raife any plants from the feed of the 
njoild Orchis', but he aferibes his want of faccefs to the wetnefs of the 
fituation in which he relides. 
I have now before me, a feed pod of the Orchis, the contents of 
which, to the naked eye, feem to be feed corrupted and turned to 
duft, but, when viewed through a microfeope, appear evidently to 
be organized, and would, I doubt not, with proper culture germi- 
nate and produce a thriving crop of plants. 
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