DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Okchis, 
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Narrow-lipped Military Orchis. (O. militaris. a. FI. Brit. O. tephros 
anthos. Villars. Willd. Bicheno. Hook. Sm. Meadows and pastures in 
a chalky soil. Caversham Hills, by the Thames side, not far from Reading. 
It is found at present on the rising ground among the bushes W. of the 
great chalk-pit facing the Thames; but of uncertain produce. Bicheno. 
E.) P. May. 
The greater or lesser breadth of the middle segment of the nectary, is 
the principal difference. (Smith remarks, that all the varieties, in drying, 
smell like new hay, and greatly vary and interchange with each other. 
E.)* 
(2) Bulbs of the root hand-shaped . 
O. latifo'lia. Bulbs somewhat hand-shaped, straight: horn of the 
nectary conical: lip with three lobes; the lateral ones reflexed : 
floral leaves longer than the flowers. 
(About a foot in height. Leaves sheathing the stem nearly to the top, 
from half an inch to an inch and a half in breadth. Bloss. purple, or 
pale red, rarely white, in a rather dense spike. Lip spotted and streaked. 
Prof. Hooker observes that this species may always be known by its 
slightly-lobed lip; its broad, nearly erect, and acuminated leaves ; and 
especially by the bracteas , which are leafy and longer than the germens. 
E.) Bulbs divided into two or three fingers. Differs from O. maculata 
as follows: Floral-leaves longer than the flowers. Leaves nearly without 
spots. Stem hollow. Linn. 
Var. 2. Linn. Middle segment of the lip blunt, as narrow again as the 
side ones, but of the same length. 
Curt. 250— Mill. Ill—FI. Dan. 266—(E. Bot. 2308. E.)— Hall. 32. 2. at 
ii. U2—Dod. 240. 1 —Lob. Obs. 90* 3. Ic. i. 188. 1 —Ger. Em. 220. 1— 
Park. 13 56. 1 —Ger. 169. 1 —J. B. ii. 774. 1— Blackw. 405— H. Ox. 
xii. 14. 2— Flowers only , Vaill. 31. 35. 4. 
Bulbs cloven in two, each segment divided, and expanded. Spike oblong 
spear-shaped, one to two and a half inches long. St. 
Var. 3. Linn. Middle segment of the lip egg-shaped, acuminate, as long 
again as the side ones. 
Vaill. 31. 2 and 1— Wale. — Dod. 241— Lob. Obs. 91.* 3 ; Ic. i. 190. 1— Ger. 
Em. 222. 3—Park. 1358. 11— Ger. 171. 8 —Lob. Obs. 93. 1. Ic. i. 191. 2— 
Ger. Em. 226. 1— Ger. 174. 2— Flowers only , Vaill. 31. 2 and 1— Park. 
1360. 16. 
In the same moist meadows with (l) between Battenhall and Worcester. 
Stokes. 
Broad-leaved Hand Orchis. Marsh Palmate Orchis. (Welsh: 
Tegeirian y gors. E.) Moist meadows and pastures, and marshy 
ground, common. P. May—June. 
O. macula'ta. Bulbs expanding: horn of the nectary shorter than 
the germen: lip, flat (three-lobed, crenate: E.) petals on the 
back upright. 
(JTooAr. FI. Lond. 112 —E. Bot. 632. E.)— FI. Dan. 933— Hall. 32. 1. at ii. 
p. 142— Lonic. i. 203. 2— Dod. 240. 2— Lob. Obs. 90.* 4 ,* Ic. i. 188. 2— 
* (See an attempt to elucidate these intricate varieties by Mr. Bicheno* in Linn. Tr. 
xii. E.) 
