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PIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Orchis. 
Ger. Em. 220. 2— Park. 1357. 3 —Trag. 781 —Ger. 169. 2 —J.B. ii. 
775. 2— Lob. Obs. 91.* 1. 7c. i. 189. 1 —Ger. Em. 222. 1— H. Ox. 12. 14. 
roio 2. 5— Flowers only , Fa*7/. 31. 9 and 10. 
One of the bulbs floats in water, this nourishes the stem; the other sinks 
and bears the bud for the ensuing year. Linn. Stem solid. Leaves spotted. 
Floral-leaves not longer than the flowers. Petals , the three outer upright, 
the two inner approaching. Spikes compact, conical. Flowers nearly 
forty, pale purple, with deeper lines. Relh. Bulbs compressed; fingers 
wide apart. Stem six to eighteen inches high, cylindrical below, angular 
above. Leaves underneath silvery grey, with parallel green veins, above 
pale green, often partially covered with the same silvery cuticle; spots 
reddish brown, numerous, mostly oval and transverse, sometimes irre¬ 
gular, the edges of the upper ones decurrent, whence the angular appear¬ 
ance of the upper part of the stem in this and several other species. 
Flowers sometimes nearly white, and without spots, when the leaves also 
are pale, and spotless. Lip deeply cloven into three, marked with purple 
spots and lines; the lateral segments angular, the middle one spear- 
shaped. Horn bluntish. Differs from O. latifolia , in the lowermost leaf 
being always very blunt, the lip being deeply cloven into three, and in 
flowering later. Woodw. Floral-leaves, the lower longer than the flowers, 
the upper shorter. St. O . mascula, and O. morio, having often spotted 
leaves, have sometimes been mistaken for this species. ( Stem solid, and 
far more slender than in O. latifolia ; bractece as short as, or perhaps even 
shorter than, the germen. Hook. E.) 
Spotted Hand Orchis. (Welsh: Tegeirian manog byseddog. Gaelic: 
An urach-bhallach. E.) Woods, rich meadows, when the spike is large, 
and a hand’s breadth long; in barren pastures, the spike is only half that 
size, and has fewer flowers. Ray. (P. June—July. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves not spotted. 
Auchandenny Woods, Scotland. Parsons, in FI. Scot. 518. 
O. conop'sea. Horn of the nectary bristle-shaped, twice as long as 
the germen; lip in three entire segments; two of the petals 
much expanding. 
Dicks. H. S .— {Hook. FI. Lond. 186. E.)— FI. Dan. 224— E. Bot. 10— Hall. 
29. 2. at ii. 47— Vaill. 30. 8 and 8 —Fuch. 712— J. B. ii. 778. 1— Lob. 
Obs. 91*£2. Ic. i. 189. 2— Ger. Em. 223. 2—Park. 1358. 5— H. Ox. 
xii. 14. 14— Ger. 171. 2— Floicers only, Vaill. 30. 8 and 8. 
Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, cylindrical below, angular above. 
Leaves spear-shaped, strap-pointed, acuminate; bright green, keeled, 
with a strong mid-rib, on each side of which is one strong rib, and two or 
three fainter veins: lower stem-leaves embracing the stem : the upper sessile, 
decreasing in size till they resemble the floral-leaves. Floral-leaves 
spear-shaped, acute, longer than the germen. Spike long, loose, some¬ 
times more crowded with flowers. E.) Flowers flesh-coloured, or pale 
purple, very fragrant. Petals, the middlemost of the outer and the two 
inner ones closely approaching, their points bent inwards, and covering 
the stamens; the two outer spear-shaped, at right angles with the lip of 
the nectary. Spur slender, semi-transparent. Woodw. {Lip not spotted.— 
The two-cells of the anthers are perforated at the base, through which the 
naked, large, and oblong glands of the stalks of the pollen-mass appear. 
Hook. E.) The great length of the flexuous horn of the nectary, so 
strikingly remarkable, is sufficient to distinguish it from every other 
speeies in this subdivision. 
