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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophuys. 
Culloden, Gordon Castle, and Scone. Mr. Murray. FI. Lond. E.) 
P. June—Aug. ' 
OTHRYS. # Nectary slightly keeled underneath, (deflexed. E.) 
( 1 ) Bulbs branched. 
O. nidus-a'vis. (Bulbs fibrous, fasciculated: stem sheathed with 
scales, leafless: lip of the nectary cloven. 
Dicks. H. S.—Hook. FI. Bond. 58. E.)— E. Bot. 4,8—Hall, 37. 2. at ii. 
p. 149— FI. Dan. 181 —Trag. 785—Dod. 553. 2— Lob. Ic. i. 195. 1. Clus. 
i. 270. 1— Ger. Em. 228— Park. 1362, Orchis, &$c. — H. Ox. xii. 16. 18— 
Pet. 70. 3— Flower and fruit only, Tourn. 250. 3. 
Flowers numerous, and, as is the whole plant, brown. Root fixed laterally 
to the stem ; fibres fleshy, short, numerous. Stem twelve to fifteen inches 
high, thickest at the base, firm, continuing long after the seeds are shed. 
Spike cylindrical, four or five inches long, rather diffuse below, compact 
above. Floral-leaves shorter than the germens, spear-shaped. Petals 
closely approaching, oval. Lip long, at first strap-shaped, but at the 
end cloven, the segments blunt, wide apart. Capsules on fruit-stalks, 
triangular, a prominent rib along each angle and side, the interstices 
plane. This, and Orchis abortiva, (once supposed to have been found in 
Britain. E.) are closely connected in habit with Orobanche, Lathrwa, and 
Monotropa. Woodw. (Whether this plant be truly parasitic, or nou¬ 
rished by decayed leaves and bark, seems questionable. E.) 
Bird’s-nest Twayblade. (O. nidus-avis. Linn. Listera nidus-avis. Br. 
Hook. Sm. Epipactis nidus-avis. Sw. Willd. E.) Woods and shady 
places, but rather rare. About Charlton, Maidstone, and Roehill, Kent. 
Aldburgh, Suffolk. Near Ingieton, and in Offley Park. Heydon, Nor¬ 
folk. Mr. Bryant. Buckham Wood, Cumberland. Mr. Woodward. 
Woods on a limestone soil, not uncommon about Newton Cartmel. Mr. 
Hall. (Benthal-edge,,Coalbrook Dale. Mr. Aikin. Woods about Bath. 
Marlow Wood, frequent. Mr. Gotobed; and the wood near Temple- 
house, Bucks, plentifully. Bey. H. Davies. In the Chase, a little to the 
east of Rushmore Lodge, and the little wood at Chettle, Dorsetshire. 
Rev. Mr. Chaffin. Cocken, in the wood on the west side of Whartons- 
haugh, Durham, and in the dingle above the old windmill on the right 
hand side; also in Castle Eden Dean. Mr. Winch. Wood on Lain- 
dowhills, Essex. Mr. E. Forster, jun. AFoods near Pont Nedd Vachn, 
Glamorganshire. Mr. J. Woods, jun. AFood between Alkham and Ewel 
Minnis, near Dover, and in a wood at Ystrad-gunlais, Glamorganshire. 
Mr. Dillwyn. Gawdy Hall Wood, at Harleston, Norfolk. Rev. H. Tilney. 
In Norbury Park, near Croydon, and on Ranmer Common. Mr. J. 
AFoods, jun. Friary AFood, Hinton Abbey, Somersetshire ; Thorp Arch 
Woods, near Weatherby. Rev. Archdeacon Pierson. Woods about 
Rippon. Mr. Brunton, in Bot. Guide. Frith AFood, near Painswick. Mr. 
O. Roberts. Forest Hill Wood, Peckham, Surry. Mr. W. Christy. 
Ragley, Oversley, and Middleton Woods, Warwickshire. Bree. In the 
Long Lith under shady beeches among dead leaves; in Great Dorton 
among the bushes, and on the Hanger plentifully ; Selborne, Hants. 
White’s Nat. Hist. AFoods at Dalhousie. Grev. Edin. E.) 
P. May—June.t 
* (From othe eye-brow; to stain which a certain species was used by the 
ancients. E.) 
•j* Mr. Hall observes, that the woods in the part of Lancashire where he lives, are cut 
