Copy 1, Volume 4

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • James Edward Smith
Date:
1824-1836
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Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P. Christi foemina. Ger. Em. 220. /. Satyrium basilicum foemina. Dod. Pempt. 240. /. Fuchs. Hist. 713./. S. basilicum mas alterum. Fuchs. Ic. 410./. In meadows, pastures and woods, very common ; sometimes on dry, barren, or heathy, ground. Perennial. June, July. Roots distinctly palmate, with several long, spreading, slender lobes, resembling the true radicles. Stem nearly or quite solid, leafy. Leaves lanceolate, keeled, all copiously stained with blackish spots. Spike short, dense, conical. Bractcas scarcely so long as the germen, green, or but slightly purplish. FI. va¬ riable in size, pale purple, or white, variously besprinkled with dark purple, or violet, streaks and dots. Cal. spreading, as much coloured as the corolla. Lip flat, with 2 large, rounded, crenate side-lobes,and a sharp intermediate point. Spur scarcely shorter than the germen, more slender and cylindrical than the last. Anther purplish, with green pollen. 14. O. conopsea. Aromatic Palmate Orchis. Knobs palmate. Lip of the nectary in three entire equal lobes; spur very slender, twice as long as the germen. Calyx widely spreading. O. conopsea. Linn. Sp. PL 1335. IVilld. v. 4. 32. FI. Br. 92G. Engl. Bot. v. 1. t. 10. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 4. 13. Forst. Tonhr. 100. FI. Dan. t. 224. Wahlenb. Lapp. 215. O. n. 1237. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 147. t. 29./. 2. O. palmata minor, calcaribus oblongis. Bauh. Pin. 85. Rudh.Elys. r.2.212./. 5. Vaill. Par. 153. t. 30. /. 8. Segu.Veron. suppl.25\. t.S.f. 7. O. palmata angustifolia minor. Bauh. Pin. 85. Rudb. Elys. v.2. 212./. 6. O. palmata montana maxima. Bauh. Pin. 86. Prodr. 31./. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 216./. 18. O. palmata pratensis angustifolia major. Bauh. Pin, 85. Prodr.30. /• L O. palmata caryophyllata. Bauh. Pin. 86. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 213. /• 8. O. palmata angustifolia minor odoratissima. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 213. /. 7 j but not that ofBauhin, which is O. odoratissima Linn. O. foemina. Trag. Hist. 780./, not the description. O. serapias caryophyllata. Lob. Ic. 194./. Orchis. Tillands Ic. 67./ Palmata rubella, cum longis calcaribus rubellis. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 778./. RaiiSyn. 381. P. caryophyllata. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 777.f. Palma Christi major. Matth.Valgr. v.2.237./. Camer. Epit.626.f.