2i8 GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Coricphcra. ^lie lejfer Lizard Flower wich undivided 
roots, the li'j of die ncciariem triiid, refiex, and crena- 
ted, t!ie li-'rn iaorf, and tlie petals connivent. This 
fpecies hath a wliitc flower. Per. 
Purpurea. Purple Man Orchis undivided roots, 
the lip of the ncclariur'i bearded, five lobed, fhofe on 
the fidci obtufe and ci\.nu]ated, the middle fhouefl; and 
aevito, the peiais confluei't. The lip is white, variega- 
ted with purple hairs, (dn chalky hills. Per. June. 
Militaris. Man Orchis witli undivided roots, the lip 
of the neclariti n is five lobed, rough with Ipots, an ob- 
tufe horn and confluent petals. HuDsoNpays the lip of 
the nectarium is tjulnguifid. Wilson lays the lip of 
the flower rclembies the body ox a naked man. Per. June. 
Such 
The jDropereft time for gathering the roots, Is when the Teed is 
formed anci the italk is ready to fall, hecanie the new bulb, of which 
the Salep is made, is then arrived to its full maturity, and may be 
diftinguifhed from the old one, by a white bud riling from the top 
of it, which is the germen of the Orchis of the fucceeding year. 
Several methods oTpreparing Balep have been propofed and prac- 
tifed. Geoffroy has ciehvered a very jndhious procefs, for this 
purpofe, in l\\cHipoire de L"* Acaciajuie Rojale dcs Sciences^ SJ^d. 
Retzius, in the S~-eeaJh tranjadtions^ has improved Mr 
Geoffroy’s methed. 
MrMovLT of Rochdale, has lately favored the public with a 
new marner of cuhng iho. On his root', and as f have feen many 
fpecimens ofhis Sahp, at lea;l equal, if rot fupei ior, to any brought 
from the Levant'. 1 can recommend the foliowing, which is his 
procefs, fro n my own know 'edge of its fuccefs. 
The new root is to be wa^ed in water, and the fine brown Ikin, 
wiiich covers it. is to be lepitia.ied by means of a ’mall bruih, or by 
dipping tl'e root io hot water, and « abbiug it with a coarfe linen 
cloth. When a fulh'cient nu .nl^iei' of roots have been thus cleaned, 
they are to be Ip/ead on a tin pUte, and placed in an oven heated 
to. the ufiial ceg -re, where i hey are to remain fix or ten minutes, in 
which time they will have loll their mitiry whherel's, and acquhed 
a franfparerc}'' like horn, wchout any climlnLu'on of bulk. When 
srrived at thisiiaie, they are to be rcinot'edinoider tobe diled and 
hardened 
