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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, Opheys 
O. muscif'era. Bulbs roundish; stem leafy; lip of the nectary con¬ 
vex, cloth-like, with three divisions, the middle segment cloven. 
(Hook. FI. Land. — FI. Dan. 1398. E.)— Hall. 24. at ii. 135— Gunn. ii. 5. 
1— E. Bot. 64— Jacq. Ic. 1— Wale. — Pet. 68. 10— Dod. 238. 3— Lob. 
Obs. 91. 1— Park. 1352. 12— Lob. Obs. 90. 4. ic. 1. 181-r— Ger. Em. 
213. 6— Park. 1352. 10— Flowers only , Vaill. 31. 17 and 18. 
Petals, the two inner thread shaped, resembling the antennae of an insect. 
Relh. Stem nine to fifteen inches high, firm, above naked, yellowish 
green, and nearly cylindrical. Leaves three or four, spear-shaped, pale 
green, shining, with numerous longitudinal veins, the intermediate space 
covered with a thin, somewhat puckered, pellucid skin, giving a silvery 
hue. Floral-leaves strap-spear-shaped, keeled, much longer than the 
germen, pale yellowish green. Flowers thinly scattered, four to fifteen, 
having much more the appearance of a fly than those of O. apifera of a 
bee. Petals , the two inner expanding, deep reddish brown, fringed with 
short hairs, cloven at the base, fixed to the upper lip of the nectary. 
Nectary , the upper lip hooded, covering the stamens; the lower with three 
lobes, the side lobes strap-shaped, short, entire, the middlemost some¬ 
what oval, reflexed at the edges, divided by a deep angular notch into 
two lobes, reddish brown, velvety, with a blueish naked spot in the 
centre. Woodw. The blue spot upon the base of the middle segment of 
the nectary lip contributes much to the resemblance of the flower to a 
fly. 
Fly Ophrys or Twayblade. (Welsh: Caincirian yr ednogyn. E.) 
O. insectifera myodes. Linn. Meadows and pastures in calcareous soil. 
Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Yorkshire, and Anglesey, Chalk Hills 
near Northfleet, and near Croydon and Wrotham. Bath Hills, near 
Bungay, and Earsham Wood, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. In Plumpton 
Woods, near Ulverston, Mr. Atkinson. St. Vincent’s rocks, Bristol, be¬ 
hind the lower pump-room. (Chalky pastures near Shefford, Bedford¬ 
shire. Mr. Fowler. On a detached rock on the south branch of Castle Eden 
Dean, Durham, and, together with the Cypripediumm the north branch; also 
above the Gunner’s Pool. Mr. Winch. Sunny Bank at the side of Coombe 
Wood, Dover. Dillwyn. In Plumpton Woods, near Ulverstone, Lan¬ 
cashire. Mr. Woodward. In the walks of the Moat Garden at Fincham, 
Norfolk. Rev. It. Forby. Barrowfield Wood, near Kendal. Robson. On 
Hampton Down, under the cliffs, Somersetshire. Bot. Guide. Vale of 
Dudcombe, near Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. Norberry Park, Surry, 
Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. N. E. end of Cors-Bodeilio. 
and in the turbary between that and the mansion of Llanddyfnan, Angle¬ 
sey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. May—June. 
Ray mentions a larger sort, found in a pasture near Pestingford, Suffolk, 
and Welling, Hertfordshire; Greenhithe, and in the old chalk pit near 
the White House, by N. Gray. B. Syn. 379. J. B. ii. 768. (Smith thinks 
it scarcely differs sufficiently to form a permanent variety, but has intro¬ 
duced it as O. muscifera (3 , FI. Brit. E.) 
O. apif'era. Bulbs roundish: stem leafy: (lip of the nectary inflated, 
villous, five-cleft; terminal segment awl-shaped; recurved. E.) 
shorter than the petals. Woodw. 
(E. Bot. 383. E.) Curt—Wale.—J. B. ii. 767.1— Fuchs. 560.—J. B. ii. 766. 
2 —Trag. 783— Vaill. 30. 9— Dod. 238. I—Lob. Obs. 91.2; 3$ Ic. 180. 1— 
Ger. Em. 212.3 —Park. 1351. 5—Ger. 166.13— Pet. 69. Z.—Matth. 880. 
2— Flowers only, Vaill . 30. 9. 
