Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

$14 GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA.
In dry paflures, but very rare, as near KiloraK, In
the iCiand of Colon/a. n,VlL
The flowers of this grow in a fhorc clofe conical
fpike, and are of a bright purple colour, with-
out any fpots, making an elegant appearance.
The three upper petals are clofe together, the
fide ones expanded, the lip is divided into three
oval fhort intire fegmcnts, nearly equal j at the
bafe of which are tv/o parallel longitudinal au-
ricles. The fpur is cylindrical, ilender, and
longer than the capfule. The ftalk is furniflied
with five or fix lanceolate acute leaves : The
Bra^e^ are lanceolate, coloured, and of the
length of the germen.
mcrio 3. ORCHIS bulbis indivifis, nedarii labio quadrifi-
do crenulato, cornu obtufo afcendente, petalis
obtufis conniventibus. Syjt. nat. 589. Sp. pi,
1333. {Ger. em. 208./. 2. VailLpar. A, 31. /
13. 14. flof, Seg.Veron. t. 13./. T-flof, Rivin.
t. 13. Halkr. hijt.n. 1282. t,^^.)
Female Fool-ftones. Anglis.
In paflures and moift woods frequent. %. VI.
The ftalk is about eight inches high : the fpike
confifts of few flowers, feldom more than 12,
generally of a purple colour, but fometimes
flefh-coloured, or white : the petals all clofe to-
gether, forming a vaulted arch over the Jlamixa.^
They are obtufe, and always ftreaked longitu-
dinally with green lines : the lip of the nedarium
U trifid and fpotted in the middle, the lateral
lobes