Tbeatrum ‘Botanicnm . 
Tribe 15. 
8. Orchis radicc repente . Small creeping or Baflard Orchis. 
The roote of this Orchis, if it be one,are unlike all the reft,being many long and full of firings, growing thicke 
‘together, and enterlacingthemfelves one amongft another, yet have they at the upper part: thereof next under 
the leaves as Cameras laith, fome fliew of fmall buibes fometimes to be feenc, the leaves that rife from thence 
are thicke and fomewhat broad like Piantane,of a darke greenc coloir, the flalke is lender furmfhed at the toppe 
with divers white flowers fpotted with blood red fpors. Why Gerard fhould call this a ma */?*, I fee no 
reafon, when as it commech neeter to an Helleborine then Orchis . 
The Place and Time, 
Thefe kindes of Orchies grow in dry grounds^eaths.snd wafle untilled places, an 9 the hke, many of them in 
©ur Land, and others in other places, and doe all or for the mod part not flower untill Augujl or September, 
The Names . 
The(e alfo as the former hare their Authours names fet downe in the mar gent, and how they called them. 
The Vertttes. 
It is recorded by iome, that the rootes of theie kindes of Orchides are marvciloustffcftnall above any other to 
incite Vencry. 
C H APr XIV. 
'Palm,i 
Cbn/fi m: 
It vifolia 
Lob, 
Trodro 
Orchis Palmata. Handed Orchis. 
> Aving (hewed you all the kindes of bulbous Orchides in the Chapters going before, there doth yet 
k , rpmvne the other kindc of handed Orchies to be entreated of,which although they be many, yet I 
thinke meeteto compr ehend them all in this one Chapter., without parting of them. 
1. OrchU palm at a major mas jive Talma ChriJH mas. The great male handed Orchis. 
This male Orchis hath divers large broad and long imooth greene leaves lying on the ground, 
’ among which rifeth up a round (hike,with fome fuoh leaves on it, but leffer up to the toppe,where 
grow a large head of pale purple flowers,fpotted with a deeper purple colour, each flower having a heelc of the 
lame colour behind it: the rootes are flat and broad, two joyned together at the head, like unto handcs,patted at 
the bottome into fhort peecea, as if the fingers were cutfhort ofFby theknocklcs, with fome fibres at the head 
thereof alfo,one of them being firme, and the other loofc or fpongy, as in the former Orchides, whichrifcar.d 
decay in the like manner. • 
2, Orchispalmata major pratenjis artgufHjolia . The great male handed Orchis with narrow leaves. 
The rootes of this are double handed like the former, parted into three parts below : the leaves arc long and 
1, Orchis pal mat a major mas five Palma Chrifti v.<h~ 
The great male handed Orchis. 
x. Orchii palmata major prater fis avguflifclia. 
The great male handed Ore Li, with narrow leaves. 
narrow* 
