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(Dr. Pulteney found a variety bearing- white flowers on Bordean Hill, 
Hampshire. E.) 
Red Hand or Aromatic Orchis. (Welsh: Tegeirian peraroglaidd. Gym - 
nadenia conopsea. Br. Hook. E.) Meadows, pastures, (and heathy 
bog-s. E.) In a morass near Leeds. Mr. Woodward. Knutsford Moor, 
Cheshire. Mr. Aikin. Pastures under Shortwood near Pucklechurch, 
Gloucestershire, and on the Wiltshire Downs. Mr. Swayne. Dry pas¬ 
tures near Auchenney, seven miles from Edinburgh, and abundantly on 
the hilly grounds north of the river Leven, Dumbartonshire. Dr. Hope. 
(Pope’s Wood; beyond the Roman encampment, Spoonbed Hill, Pains- 
wick. Mr. O. Roberts. In Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. E.) 
P. June—Aug. 
(The plant hitherto noticed on the authority of Ray, ( Limodorum Ails - 
triacum , Syn. 383.) usually referred to O. abortiva, with violet-coloured 
flowers, and lip of the nectary very entire, though in general habit 
bearing a strong resemblance to Ophrys nidus-avis, and said to have 
been found by Goodyer near Alton in Hampshire, has little or no pre¬ 
tension to continue in a British Flora. E.) 
SATYR/XUM. # Nectary behind the flower; inflated, globose. 
S. hirci'num. Bulbs undivided : leaves spear-shaped: lip of the nec¬ 
tary three-cleft, (downy. £.) middle segment strap-shaped, 
twisted, (very long, emarginate. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 96. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 367— Hall. 25. at ii. 136— E. 
Bat. 34 —Dod. 237. I — Ger. Em. 210. I- Park. 1348. 1 —Ger. 160. 1 
— H. Ox. xii. 12. 9— Lob. Obs. 90. 1. Ic. i. 177. 1— Ger. Em. 210. 2— 
Park . 1348. 2— J. B. ii. 756 — Ger. 160. 2— Flowers only , Vaill. 30. 6. 
and Seguier 15. 1. 
{Plant eighteen inches to two feet high. E. Flowers smelling like a goat. 
Linn, whence the specific name is derived. E.) Especially fetid when 
confined in a box. The largest and tallest of our Orchises. Ray. Flowers 
greenish white, purple within. {Lip pendent, brownish purple. Lateral 
segments very short, awl-shaped, entire. Spike of flowers six to eight 
inches long. E.) (By the time the inflorescence is perfected, the lower 
part of the stem and foliage wither and decay, and the whole plant 
is liable to be overlooked. In moist seasons the colours of the flower 
are pallid, in hot and dry summers, more vivid. The flower has occa¬ 
sionally a double lip, and I once found an individual with a double spike 
of blossoms. Graves. E.) 
Lizard Flower; (From the fancied resemblance of the labellum to a 
lizard; more striking when the flower is deprived of its outer petals. 
FI. Lond. E.) or Satyrion. {S. hircinum. Linn. Orchis hircina. 
Willd. Br. Hook. Sm. E.) (A rare and singular plant first noticed in 
Britain by Mr. Bowles, between Crayford and Hartford, according to 
Ray. E.) Chalky meadows and pastures. In chalky pastures by the 
side of Darent Wood, two miles from Hartford; and in Haley Wood pits, 
near Hartford Heath. Mr. J. Woods, jun. in Bot. Guide. At the bottom 
of Clifton Hill; also in Colnwick Wood, Nottinghamshire. Deering. 
* (Named after certain wood demons, by whom it was adopted for supposed aphro¬ 
disiac qualities. E.) 
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