DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ophrys. 
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(Resembling the preceding in general habit; but usually larger. E.) Petals , 
the three outer sometimes reflexed, spear-shaped, as long as the germen, 
the two inner expanding, purplish on the inside, green without. Nectary 
lower lip rusty brown, very much resembling a small humble bee, in¬ 
versely egg-shaped, the side lobes bent down, villous, the edges bent in, 
the upper angles loose and upright, resembling the wings of a bee. 
Stamens yellow, inserted into the upper edge of the summit, bursting 
when the flower is expanding from the membranous cases of the upper 
lip, and bending down on the surface of the summit, continuing fixed to 
its edge. Anthers club-shaped, compound. 
Bee Ophrys or Twayblade. Bee Flower. O. insectifera. Linn. (O. apifera. 
Huds. Br. Curt. Sm. E.) Meadows and pastures south side of Great Com- 
berton, towards Wooller’s Hill, frequent. Nash. Tedestone, near Whit- 
bourne, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. Area of Carisbrook Castle, Isle of 
Wight. Dr. Stokes. About Earsham. Mr. Woodward; and Mulbarton. Mr. 
Crowe. On the high ground behind the St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol, near 
where O. muscifera grows, but less plentiful. On the chalk hill, near Hedson 
Wharf, and in a chalk pit near Bulstrode, Bucks. Mr. Gotobed. Mading- 
ley Wood, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. In a field opposite the old bath, 
Matlock. Pilkington. Rooker’s Gill, near Fulwell. Mr. Weighed. Near 
Ryhope turnpike gate, Durham. Rev. J. Fenwick. Chalk pits at Pur- 
fleet, Essex. Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. In Haley Wood pits, near Dart- 
ford, and common about Dover. Mr. Dillwyn. Benthal Edge, near 
Ludlow. Dr. Evans. Not uncommon about Yoxford, Bury, Bungay, 
and Harleston, Suffolk; about Boxhill, near Dorking, in great abundance. 
Mr. J. Wood, jun. Trenches at Old Sarum. Dr. Maton. Near Hilden- 
lay Stone Quarry. Mr. Teesdale. And lower banks, Rippon and Studley 
Woods, Yorkshire. Mr. Brunton. In all the hilly pastures about North 
Stoke, Somersetshire. Bot. Guide. Shepscombe Hill, Painswick. Mr. 
O. Roberts. Cracombe Hill, near Fladbury, and beside the turnpike road 
at the foot of the hill, Ruifiord, in Purton. Rocks near Babicombe, 
Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. E.) P. June—July.* 
(An elegant variety with a ichite Jlower has been found by Dr. Pulteney, 
at Bordean, Hampshire, and by Miss Ulthoff, near Halesworth, Suffolk. 
Bot. Guide. E.) 
O. aranif'era. Bulb roundish: stem leafy: (lip of the nectary vil¬ 
lous, three-lobed, pointless, emarginate, deflexed: E.) longer 
than the petals. Woodw. 
* (The wonderful resemblance of this flower to the humble-bee, to which the follow¬ 
ing stanza alludes; 
“ Perhaps his fragrant load may bind 
His limbs; we’ll set the captive free; 
I sought the living bee to find. 
And found the picture of a bee 
attracts general admiration, in a still greater degree than its interesting congeners, which 
also reward the herbarist’s researches amidst the romantic scenery of the vicinity of 
Bristol. But the number of roots annually exposed to sale by mercenary natives, (for¬ 
getful that the golden egg can no longer be produced when the matrix is destroyed ;) 
together with the ravages of underlings incautiously employed by strangers, threaten 
the total destruction of these delicate aborigines, who seem to have sought security from 
the rude violence of man in the recesses of rocks all but inaccessible, whence they 
would now implore the timely interposition of science and of taste. It may possibly 
tend to prevent the utter extirpation of these attractive vegetable curiosities to state that, 
by providing a soil such as naturally produces them, and allowing the grass to sur¬ 
round them, they may be cultivated and increased in gat dens without difficulty. E.) 
