26 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchis. 
S. praten'sis. Leaves heart-oblong; scolloped: upper leaves em¬ 
bracing the stem: flowers in whorls with hardly any intermix¬ 
ture of leaves. 
E.Bot. 153— Fuch. 569— Trag. 53— Bod. 293. 1— Ger. Em. 769. 3— Riv. 
36— Kniph. 5— Ger. 627. 3— H. Ox. xi. 13. 10— Clus. ii. 30.1— Ger. Em. 
771. 4,—J. B. iii. 312. 2. 
(Two or three feet high. E.) Floral leaves about the length of the calyx. 
Cal. spread open. Bloss. bluish purple, four times as large as the calyx; 
helmet hooked, sometimes glutinous. 
Meadow Sage, or Clary. (Welsh: Gwerddonell y waun. E.) Meadows 
and pastures. Surry and Sussex, common. Stokes. Wick-cliffs, Glou¬ 
cestershire. Rev. G. Swayne. (Near Llanidan, Anglesey. Bingley. 
Limestone meadows about Port Eynon, Glamorganshire. Dr. Turton. 
In Kingsthorp Church-yard, Northamptonshire, abundant. Moreton. 
Dry pastures between Middleton Stoney, and Audley, Oxfordshire. Sib- 
thorpe. In a pasture near Ford-end Farm, Bedfordshire. Rev. T. O. 
Marsh, in Bot. Guide. E.) P. June—July. 
S. verbena'ca. Leaves indented, serrated, rather smooth: blossom 
more slender than the calyx. 
(Curt. E.) E. Bot. 154— Clus. ii. 31. 1— Ger. Em. 771. 1— Park. 5J. 8— 
Blackw. 258— Barr. 208— H. Ox. xi. 14. 33. 
(One to two feet high, aromatic. Leaves greyish green, rugose, veined, the 
lower ones stalked.) Floral leaves longer than the calyx. Cal. much 
wider than the tube of the blossom, but its segments not expanded and 
spread open. Bloss. not twice the length of the calyx; blue; com¬ 
paratively small. E.) 
Wild English Clary. (Welsh: Torfagl; Golwg. Crist. E.) Meadows 
and pastures. Kegworth Church-yard, Leicestershire, and about Chester. 
Mr. Caley. About Kinfare, Staffordshire, plentiful. Mr. Brunton.— 
On the Castle hill, Tamworth. (Lime rocks about Garn, Denbighshire. 
Mr. Griffith. On the ramparts about Wareham. Corfe Castle, and in 
Purbeck; common in Portland; Castle hill at Shaftesbury; in Langton 
Church-yard. Pulteney. On the banks below Tynemouth Castle; 
Ballast-hills, below Gateshead. Mr. Winch. Near the Priory at Pen- 
mon, Anglesey. Welsh Bot.—Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. Lightfoot.— 
Bidford and Haslor, near the churches, Warwickshire. By the side of 
the road at Harvington, leading to the mill, Worcestershire. Purton.— 
Stratford Church-yard. Perry. E.) P. June.* 
OR'CHIS.f Nectary resembling a horn, behind the flower: 
Bloss. gaping. 
(1) Bulbs of the root undivided. 
O. bifo'lia. Lip of the nectary spear-shaped; very entire: horn very 
long: (twice the length of the germen, E.) petals expanding. 
* The seeds soaked in water for a few minutes exhibit a dense mucilaginous coating, 
not unlike frog-spawn, (which has been considered serviceable in obtunding or removing 
adventitious particles from the eyes, whence (by contraction) the English name. E.) 
Those of S. pratensis have the same property, but in a less degree. 
•f* (From opxos, in reference to the shape of the root, most species being bulbous. E.) 
