NATIONAL MUSEUM OF VICTORIA 
T H E 
B E E O P H R Y S. 
Generic Character. 
The Nettary of a fomewhat keel-fliapcd appear¬ 
ance on its lower furface. 
Lin. Syji. Nat. 
Specific Character, &c. 
OPHRYS with roundifh bulbs, leafy ftera, lip 
of the nettary notched into five lobes. 
Lin. 
OPHRYS with 5-petaled flowers, of which the 
3 exterior petals are large, acuminate, and 
of a very pale purple; the 2 interior ones 
(mail, very narrow, and greenifh; the nec- 
tarium large, convex, brown, of a velvety 
furface, and marked with yellow fpots and 
ftreaks. 
ORCHIS, f. Tefticulus vulpinus 2 fphegodes. 
Gerard emac. p. 212 . 
ORCHIS fphegodes, feu fucum referens. 
Park. 1350. 
The plant figured is well known to the adopters of 
botany by the title of the Bee-Orchis. I t flowers ,,, 
June and July. It is found principally on htlly grounds 
