BIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophrys. 
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Stem about six inches high, cylindrical, smooth. Root-leaves two or three,, 
sheathing the stem, spear-shaped, smooth, shining, yellowish green; 
stem-leaves one or two awl-shaped, sessile. Spike one or one and a half 
inch long, with numerous flowers. Flowers small, greenish yellow, with 
a faint musky scent. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, taper-pointed, the lower 
equal to or somewhat longer than the germen, the upper somewhat 
shorter. Germen oval, sessile, tapering above into a sort of fruit-stalk, 
whence the flower hangs obliquely nutant. Petals, the three outer oval- 
spear-shaped, somewhat approaching, the two inner broad at the base, 
scolloped, and suddenly narrowing into strap-spear-shaped. Woodw. 
(Most tuberous-rooted Orchises present the two tubers (of the present 
and succeeding year,) of nearly equal dimensions; but here, while the 
tuber which affords nourishment to the existing stem is sessile, large, and 
shrivelled, the other is seen forming a little swelling at the extremity, of 
an horizontal fibre. The future year’s plant will thus arise at some con¬ 
siderable distance from its parent. Hook. FI. Lond. E.) 
Yellow Musk Ophrys or Twayblade. (O. monorchis. Linn. Herminium 
monorchis. Br. Hook. Sm. E.) Barren pastures in calcareous soil. 
Chalk-pit at Marham, near Swaffham. Mr. Woodward. Near Snet- 
tisham. Mr. Crowe. (In a chalk pit by the road side at Gerard’s Cross, 
Bucks. Blackstone. Chalk pits near Gogmagog Hills. Relhan. In a 
chalk pit near Sicklesmere, and at Little Saxham, Suffolk. Sir T. G. 
Cullum. In the great chalk pit on Epsom Downs, near Ashstead Park. 
Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. Rot. Guide. Box-hill, Surrv. Mr. Winch. E.) 
P. July. 
O. anthropo'piiora. Bulbs roundish : stalk leafy: lip of the nectary 
strap-shaped, three-cleft; the middle segment long; cloven. 
{Curt. E.)— E. Bot. 29— Col. Ecphr. i. 320. 1— Pet. 68. 8— Hall. 23, at ii. 
133— Flowers only, Vaill. 31. \9and2Q. 
Stem about one foot high, firm, smooth, cylindrical at the base, somewhat 
angular upwards. Root-leaves four or five, expanding, spear-shaped,, 
varying in breadth; stem-leaves one or two just above the former, closely 
embracing the stem. Spike long, diffuse. Floral-leaves membranous,, 
spear-shaped, finely tapering at the end, half as long as the germen.. 
Petals, the three outer oval strap-shaped, greenish, with purple lines and 
edges; the two inner strap-shaped. Lip, (longer than the germen. E.)i 
the two outer segments strap-shaped, slender; the middlemost as long 
again, cloven half way down into two pointed segments, rather wide 
apart. Woodw. 
Green Man* Ophrys or Twayblade. ( O. anthropophora . Linn. Curt. Dicks. 
FI. Brit. Aceras anthropophora. Br. Sm. E.) Chalky meadows and pas¬ 
tures. Near Northfleet, Greenhithe, and other places in Kent. Ashwel- 
thorpe, near Norwich. Mr. Crowe. (Forncet, Norfolk. Mr. Fox. FI. 
Brit. Bank west of Crabbe, and in Bocton church-yard, Kent. Mr. 
Dillwyn. In a dry pit at the end of Mr. Wright’s garden at Mendham, 
Norfolk. Rev. H. Tilney. Blackenham, near Ipswich. Rev. W. Kirby. 
Chalk pit near Cheam, Surry. Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. in Bot. Guide. 
Box-hill and Juniper-hill, Surry. Mr. Winch. E.) 
* (In reference to the supposed resemblance of the flower to a naked human figure, 
with its hands and legs cut off. “ 0, flore nudi hominis effigiem representans Rudb. 
Elys. Bauh. Pin. E.) 
