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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophrys. 
O. CORDa'ta. Bulb fibrous: (stem with two opposite, heart-shaped, 
leaves: lip with two teeth at the base; bifid at the apex; seg¬ 
ments strap-awl-shaped. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. {Hoolc. FI. Lond. 143. E. JBoi. 358. E.) Hall. 22. 4; Ophrys, 
fyc. at ii. 132— J. B. iii. 534. 2— Pet. 70. 11.— H. ox. xii. 11. row. 1. 4. 
— Gunn. ii. 3. 6. 
{Root, fibres not fasciculated. Stem three to six inches high, very slender. 
Spike short, with a few very small, brownish green flowers. E.) Floral- 
leaves minute, oval-spear-shaped, as long as the fruit-stalks. Petals ex¬ 
panding, the three outer oval-spear-shaped, the two inner spear-shaped. 
Lip strap-shaped, purplish at the base, divided below the middle; seg¬ 
ment awl-shaped. Woodw. (This plant differs remarkably from some 
of its congeners in having no ligulate process at the back of the anther. 
A small bud or rudiment of the future year’s stem is always seen nestled 
among the fibres, and this is analogous to one of the tubers of the Orchis 
genus. Hook. E.) 
Least Twayblade. Heart-leaved Twayblade. {O. cordala, Linn. 
Lister a cor data. Br. Hook. Sm. E.) Moist mountainous heaths, in boggy 
ground, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Westmoreland. On Ingleborough, 
and on the high moor between Sheffield and Chatsworth. Sir J. E. Smith. 
(Raceground, near Scarborough. Mr. Travis. Gold Hill, near Mug- 
gleswick, and among the ling in Charmberry, Egleston, Durham. Rev. 
J. Harriman. Bot. Guide. Blair Athol. Mr. Winch. Pentland Hills. 
Dr. Greville. E.) P. June—July. 
(2) Bulbs undivided. 
O. loese'lii. Bulb roundish: stalk naked, triangular: leaves two, 
egg-spear-shaped; lip of the nectary egg-shaped, recurved. E.) 
{Dicks. H. S. E.) FI. Dan. 877— E. Bot. 47— Lob. Adv. Alt. 506. 1— J. B. 
ii. 770. l.—Pluk. 247. 2— Pet. 70. 12. 
Leaves nearly as long as the stalk. Flowers not exceeding five to eight. 
Lip large in proportion to the other parts. Linn. Stalk six inches high, 
upright, with from three to five angles, smooth. Root-leaves very entire, 
bare. Flowers in a bunch, yellowish green. Petals, the three outer 
strap-shaped, reflexed, green, the two inner on the sides thread-shaped, 
somewhat purplish. Lip very entire, purplish. Capsule upright, oblong, 
angular. Seeds numerous, small. Huds. 
Dwarf Twayblade. O. Loeselii. Linn. O. Lilifolia Loeselii. Huds. {Malaxis 
Loeselii. Sw. Willd. Sm. Br. E.) St. Faith’s-Newton bogs, near 
Norwich; a single specimen given to Mr. Lightfoot. Mr. Pitchford. 
None since found either in Norfolk or Suffolk; but in 1785, I saw a 
specimen from Mr. Sole, which was found on Hinton Moor. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward; and on other Moors near Cambridge by Mr. Relhan. (Boggy 
grounds about Ham Ponds near Eastry, Kent. Dillwyn. Bogs near 
Tuddenham, Suffolk. Sir T. G. Cullum. Bot. Guide. E.) 
P. June—July. 
O. monor/chis. Bulb globose: stalk naked: lip of the nectary three-cleft; 
cruciform: (leaves radical, two, spear-shaped. E.) 
{Dicks. II. S.—Hook. FI. Lond. 138— E. Bot. 71. E.)— Seguier. ii. 16. 15— 
J. B. ii. 768. 3— FI. Dan. 102— Hall. 22. 3; Monorchis, at ii. p. 132— 
Mich. 26. 3— Gmel. i. 4. I—Rapp. 2. 5; Monorchis, atp. 238. 
