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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchis, 
765. 2— H. Ox. xii. 12. 20— • Flowers only, Vaill. 31. 35. and 36— Seguier 
15. 4. 
Stem angular, (seldom more than three or four inches high. E.) Spike 
compact, with nearly forty flowers. Floral leaves as long as the germen. 
Horn much shorter. Petals purplish without; greenish white within. 
Relh. Leaves five or six, spear-shaped. Spike egg-shaped, seldom an 
inch in length. Lip with three divisions, the two outer segments ex¬ 
panding, spear-shaped, entire, with one or two teeth, the middle one 
longer, widening at the end, with two short lobes and an intermediate 
point. Woodw. Nectary , middle segment of the lower lip always 
cloven, with or without a small projecting point in the cleft. 
(A white-flowered var. has been sometimes observed. E.) 
Dwarf Orchis. Dry meadows and pastures. Gogmagog Hills, New¬ 
market Heath, and Barneck Heath, near Stamford. Woodward. On 
Wick Cliffs, and on the Wiltshire Downs. Rev. G. Swayne. On Salisbury 
Plain, particularly upon the barrows about Stonehenge. (Barton Hill, 
Luton Downs, Bedfordshire. Abbot. In Nutford Field, near Blandford. 
Pulteney. Sea banks at Ryhope; East side of Cleadon Hills, Durham. 
Mr. Thornhill and Mr. Waugh, in Bot, Guide. About Dover. Shouldham 
lime-kiln hill, Norfolk, but rare. Rev. R. Forby, ditto. Chalk bank, 
Risby Heath, Suffolk. Sir G. T. Cullum, ditto. Back of Juniper Hill, 
near Dorking. Mr. J. Woods, jun. ditto. At the Woodlands, near 
Bridgnorth. Hall, in Purton. E.) P. May-—June. 
O. milita'ris. Lip of the nectary five-cleft ; rough with dots: horn 
blunt: petals confluent. 
Flowers in a spike, purplish or ash-coloured. Petals growing together. 
Lip three cleft; middle segment longest. Spntr short, rather blunt. Linn, 
but half the length of the germen. 
Var. 2. Fusca. Lip three cleft; middle segment very broad, notched at 
the end, and a little point in the notch. 
Curt. — Jacq. Austr. 307 — E. Bot. 16 —Ray 19. 2. at p. 379 — Hall. 31. at ii. 
p. 140— Flowers only, Vaill. 31. 27, 28— Seguier ii. 15. 2. 
From eight to twelve inches high. Spike about three inches long. Leaves 
egg-spear shaped. Bloss. varying much in colour, of a pale rose red, 
with sometimes a greyish cast on the lip, and of a deeper purplish hue 
on the upper petals. 
With a greenish cast. Jacq. Ic. O. moravica . O. militarispurpurea. Huds. 
Ed. ii. O. fusca. Curt. 
Broad-lipped Military Orchis. O. militaris (3. Linn. FI. Brit. Jacq. 
Austr. (and latterly considered a distinct species by Smith. E.) On dry 
chalky soils, near woods and thickets. About Rochester, and near 
Northfleet. (Marlow Wood in plenty. Mr. Gotobed; and woods 
between High Wycombe and Great Marlow. Mr. J. Rayer, in Bot. 
Guide. Near the old chalk pit by the paper mill at Harefield, Middlesex, 
plentiful. Blackstone. P. May—June. 
Var. 3. Lip three-cleft, segments strap-shaped. 
(Easily known by the narrow segments of the lip, and acuminated petals. 
A delicate, smaller plant than the preceding, having a remarkably 
abrupt termination to the spike of flowers. Bichen®. 
Hook, FI. Lond. 32—E. Bot. 1873. E .)—Hall. 28. 1. at ii. p. 140— Col. 
Ecphr. i. 320. 2 .—Ger. Em. 205. 2—Park. 1344 —Fuch. 554— J. B. 
ii. 755— Trag. 778— Flowers only , Vaill. 31. 25 and 26. 
