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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophkys. 
jecting from the point of the germen, concave above where it receives 
the mass of pollen, which sometimes remains in it even after the flower 
is decayed ; margin upright, with five teeth beneath, obliquely lopped. 
Summit flat, somewhat egg-shaped, green, glutinous,* cloven at the 
point. St. (exhaling a delicately fragrant odour. E.) 
Triple Twayblade, or Ladies' Traces. t (Welsh: Caineirian nydd - 
droedig. O. spiralis. Linn. Neottia spiralis. Sw. Br. Willd. Hook. 
Sm. E.) Dry sandy and chalk pastures, and moist meadows. Dry 
barren clayey pastures, and on a boggy common. Woodward. In a 
croft near Whitehall, on the road from Truro to Redruth. Mr. Watt. 
Under the rocks at Pinney Cliffs, near Lyme. Mr. Knappe. Sides of 
sunny banks in the limestone pastures about Newton Cartmel. Mr. Hall. 
(Pastures about Voylas, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. In Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. Allerton, and in the woods at Ince, near Liverpool. Dr. 
Bostock. Reygate Hill, Surry. Mr. Winch. In a field close to the 
brick-kiln on the road from Bidford to Binton, and at Snitterfield, near 
to the Lodge Farm, Warwickshire. Purton. On the slope of the down 
ascending to Walton Castle, on the Clevedon side, Somersetshire. Mr. 
F. Russell. In the Long Lith, and towards the south corner of the com¬ 
mon, Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. Lawns about Wick House, near 
Bristol. On the Ness, Teignmouth. E.) P. Aug.—Oct. 
(O. gemmif^era. Leaves lanceolate, as tall as the stalk: spike three- 
ranked, twisted; bracteas smooth. 
Root of two annual knobs, each three inches long, and one-fifth of an inch in 
diameter near its origin, and tapering downwards. Leaves five or six, 
upright, three-ribbed, three inches long. Stalk erect, two inches high, 
bearing in the upper branches two or three lanceolate bracteas. Spike 
an inch long, ovate, dense, erect, of about eighteen white t flowers , each 
accompanied by a bractea as tall as itself. Flowers much resembling 
those of Neottia (O.) spiralis , but the calyx and petals are twice as long 
as in that species, and the calyx is more taper-pointed. Outside the 
Jlowers and capsule downy. Buds destined to flower the following year 
are formed among the leaves, at the bottom of the flower-stalk. After 
flowering the root decays, and the following spring each bud puts forth 
a pair of oblong knobs, and becomes a separate plant. 
Proliferous Ladies’ Traces. Neottia gemmipara. In marshes on 
the west coast of Ireland. Near Castletown, opposite to Bearhaven, on 
the northern side of Bantry Bay. Mr. Drummond. 
P. July. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
O. 0VA f TA. Bulb fibrous: stem two-leaved: leaves egg-shaped, oppo¬ 
site : lip of the nectary cloven half way down. 
Hall. 37. 1. at ii. p. 150— Curt. 177—(E. Bot. 1548. E.)— Gars. 425. 2— 
Dod. 242. 1— Lob. Obs. 161. 3. and Ic. i. 302. 2— Park. 504. 1— Fuchs. 
566— J. B. iii. 533. 2— FI. Dan. 137— Matth. 1225—Lonic. i. 241. 2— 
Ger. 326—Pet. 70. 10. 
(Stem about a foot high. Leaves striated. Flowers distant upon the spike. 
* (Sprengelt has observed small flies adhering to the glutinous stigmas of some of the 
Orchideae like birds on a limed twig: hence these plants may rank in the lower order of 
Muscicapx, and perhaps not without a further design than may be at first apparent. E.) 
t (The vulgar orthography, as here given, appears to be a corruption of tresses, 
and these probably were originally designated Our Lady’s , as ingeniously suggested 
in FI. Lond. E.) 
