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OPHRYS tenthredinifera. 
Saw-fly Ophrys. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipex. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 309. | 
Div. I. Anthera adnata subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse é 
lobulis angulatis elasticé cohzerentibus ; basi affixe. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 
2. 5. 188. 
OPHRYS. Cor. subpatens. Labellum ecalcaratum, Glandula@ pol- 
linis cucullis distinctis incluse. Id. /. c. 195. 
O. tenthredinifera, caule folioso, labello villoso obovato bilobo appendicu- 
lato, petalis patentibus, 3 exterioribus oblongis obtusis, binis interiori- 
bus brevissimis. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 64. 
Ophrys insectifera. var. A. rosea. Desfont. atl. 2, 320. 
Ophrys villosa. Des/ont. in ann. du-Muséum 10, 225. t. 14. 
Orchis orientalis, fucum referens, flore parvo, villosissimo, scuto azureo. 
Tournef. cor. inst. 30. Vélins du Muséum. 
Tuber didymum, indivisum. Folia subtis lineata, radicalia-4-5, elliptico- 
lanceolata, subtriuncialia, latiora unciam feré transversa ; caulina angusté _ 
lanceolata vaginantia. Caulis feré duplo altior. Spica laxa 3-8-flora. 
Bractex pallido-carnee lineis viridibus, convoluto-lanceolate, erecte, germen 
semunciale viride tortum curvatum superantes. Cor. nutans, cruciato-ringens, 
subpatens rictt subuncialt : pet. 5 lilacino-rosea, 3 exteriora distantia, isome- 
tra, slabra, obtusa, nervo medio carinata, medium erectum ellipticum fornica- 
ium, lateralia ovato-elliptica patentissima horizontalia : 2 intertora istis alterna 
minima angulari-ovata intis tomentosa, summe columne acclinia: Jabellum 
dependens, amplum, subpandurato-obcordatum, bilobo-retusum acuminulo ter- 
~ minali crasso rigido uncatim infracto, intis sericeum at gibbo medio hirsutins 
ac si barbatum, viridi-luteum, converum, margine depressum, pictum macula 
magna pectoraliformi castaned supra includente alteram scuiifonmen polyedram 
glabratam cyaneam albo tridiatam ipsam continentem cum glandula elevata tho- 
raciformi rubro-fuscd splendenteque. Columna anticé fornicata, margine 
flavo villoso ad utrumque latus anther ocello nigro notato. Cucullus antherze 
dithecus rostrato-terminalis erectus virens compressus aduncus thecis 2 collate- 
ralibus antice fenestratis. Pollinis masse flav erecta clavate, stipite longiore 
capitello. , 
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Many species in this genus recall forcibly the images of 
various insects, as flies, bees, spiders, &c.; of which we 
have instances in the few indigenous ones of our own 
country. The present is a native of the Coast of Barbary, 
the Levant, and probably of Sicily, having been lately in- 
troduced from the botanic garden of Palermo, by Mr. 
William Swainson. In the Flora Atlantica it is included 
among the varieties of the insectifera of Linnzus, but now 
stands distinct, as well as the others of that promiscuously 
