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OPHRYS* araneffera; var. limbita. 
Bordered Spider Orchis. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncHIDER. § Ophrydee. Lindley. 
OPHRYS. — Supra, vol. 3. fol. 205. 
O. araneifera ; labello emarginato integro convexo pubescente inappendi- 
culato subrotundo mutico: disco maculato, perianthio herbaceo : petalis 
ovatis pubescentibus sepalis dupld brevioribus, foliis glaucis. 
O. araneifera Auctorum. ; 
Var. limbata; macula disci sinuata limbata anticé biloba medio ocellata. 
This pretty variety of O. araneifera was sent to the 
Horticultural Society, in 1826, by Signor Mauri, of Rome. 
It is figured chiefly for the purpose of shewing the differ- 
ences that exist between it and Ophrys atrata, represented 
at Plate 1087. It is perhaps the same as Sir James 
Smith’s O. fucifera; but of that species we have not seen 
any authentic specimens which will justify us in absolutely 
referring it hither. The Kentish O. araneifera varies so 
much in the figuring, and outline of its labellum, that we 
can scarcely doubt O. fucifera being a mere variety of it. 
A hardy, perennial spring plant, when wild loving to 
grow in chalky soil among short grass; or, if cultivated, in 
a pot in a well-aired frame. iit 
* The form of the flowers of some of the plants formerly referred to 
Ophrys is said to have a resemblance to the eyebrow, 3De05 in Greek. In 
what the resemblance consists, we confess our inability to discover; espe- 
cially if the original Ophrys was, as is supposed, the plant now called 
Listera ovata. 
