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On this turf, between the corn- Orckit. 
lands, you fee fcattered a few beau- 
tiful purple flowers, which, at a 
diftance, look fomewhat like garden 
hyacinths. But, you now perceive, 
that the corolla is of a very different 
fhape. It refembles no flower that 
we have hitherto examined. 
As it is neceflary to begin your inveftiga- 
tion by afcertaining the Clafs, you muft di- 
veft the plant of its petals. You now dif- 
cover that t\\eftamina are fixed to thejtylus, 
or rather to a neftarium which fupplies the 
place of a piftillum. Your plant therefore 
is of the 2oth Clafs, Gynandria, for a parti- 
cular defcription of which I refer you to 
your Claris. Thzjtamna are two, therefore 
it is the firft Order, Diandria-, for in this 
Clafs, the Orders depend on the number of 
Stamina, and not on the Piftilla, as in many 
of the preceding Clafles. 
Now as to the genus, you fee there is a 
neftariwn, in the fhape of a horn, behind 
the flower. This circumftance tells you 
that it muft be an Orchis, and the undivided 
. bulbs s pf its root; quadrifid, fcallopped lip 
of the neftarium-, the obtufe afcending horn, 
and the obtufe conniving petals, convince 
you, 
