DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchis. 
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Dicks • H. S. — {Curt. E.) E. Bot. 22— Ludw. 95.— Hall 35. 2, at ii. p. 148 
— Kniph. 6— Wale. — Bod. 237.2— Lob. Obs. 88. 2, ic. i. 178. 1— Ger. Em. 
211. 2—Park. 1351. 7— Pet. 68. 11 —Ger. 165. 9— H. Ox. xii. 12. 18— 
J. B. ii. 771— Matth. 880. 2— FI. Ban. 235— Blackw. 588— Flowers only, 
Vaill. 30. 7— Seguier, 15. 10. 
( Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, ribbed; with two large radical leaves, 
attenuated at the base; and three or four cauline ones, small spear- 
shaped. Flowers numerous, yellowish white, in an oblong spike, fra¬ 
grant, especially in an evening. E.) Leaves shining underneath, as if 
varnished. 
Butterfly Orchis. (Welsh: Tegeirian dwyddalenawg. Habenaria bi¬ 
folio. Br. Hook. Moist meadows, pastures, and marshy places. 
On mountains frequent. Pentland Hills, Edinburgh. Greville. E.) 
Shotover Hill and Tarwood, Oxfordshire. Sibthorpe. (Very common in 
mountainous pastures in North Wales. Mr. Griffith. Woods between 
Longridge and Shepscombe, Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. Norberry 
Park, Surry. Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. Downs near 
Mullian, Cornwall. Rev. J. P. Jones. In a plantation near the Saltisford 
Common, Warwick. Perry. E.) P. May—June. 
Var. 1. Leaves exactly oval. 
There does not seem to be any figure of this variety. Plant full two feet 
high; leaves either two or three, six inches long and three wide. 
Shortwood, near Pucklechurch. Rev. G. Swayne. Woods and shady lanes, 
Leicestershire, common. Pulteney. Woods at Envil, Staffordshire. 
Two other varieties have been noticed by Ray, which may be thus cha¬ 
racterized. 
Var. 2. Leaves two, egg-spear-shaped. 
J.B. ii. 772— Park. 1350 —Ger. 162— Ger. Em. 211. 1— Lob. Ic. 178. 2. 
These references are given by Ray, who remarks, that the flowers are few, 
white, thinly set, extremely fragrant; lip narrow; spur very long; 
leaved two, broad, like those of lilies. 
Var. 3. Leaves two or three, spear-shaped. 
J. B. ii. 771. with three leaves — Park. 1351— Ger. Em. 211. 2 Lob. Ic 
178. 1. 
Such are the references of Ray, who also says, that it is a lower plant 
than the preceding, not above nine inches high; that the root-leaves are 
three in number, narrower than in Var. 2; that it is found in pastures, 
and flowers a month later. 
I have now before me several specimens gathered in June in the New Fo¬ 
rest near the Monument of Rufus, which agree with Var. 2, and amongst 
them is one with three leaves, and another with four, acutely spear- 
shaped, and only seven inches high. The greenish white colour of the 
blossoms, and the great length of the horn, sufficiently distinguish this 
from all other British species. 
O. pyramida'lis. Lip of the nectary bicornate, three-cleft: segments 
equal; very entire: horn long : petals somewhat spear-shaped. 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 106. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 266— Ray, 18. at p. 3 77— Hall. 35. 
1. atii.p. 148— E. Bot. 110 —Pet. 68. 4— J. B. ii. 764. 1— Clus. i. 269. 1 
— Ger. Em. 210.4 —-Park. 1349. 4— Flowers only, Vaill 31.38. 
