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

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GYNANBRIA DIANDRIA.
OPHRYS. Gen.pL ion.
Nefiarium lubtus fubcarinatum.
* Bulbis ramo/is.
Nidus avh OPHRYS bulbis fibrofo-fafciculatis, caule vagina-
'• to aphyllo, nedarii labio bifido. Syji. jiat, 592.
Sp. pi 1339. {Ger. em. 228. /. i. Rivut. t. 7.
7'Gurnef. Inft. p. 438. /. 250. Halkr. hiji. ie^o.
t. 37. bona Oeder. Dan. t, 18 1. opt.)
Bird's Neft Ophrys. Jnglis.
In woods, but not common, as in Juchendenny
woods, ten miles from Edmhurgb^ towards La-
verk. Dr. Par/ons. And In the woods zx Finla-
rigy at the head of Loch-Tay, m Breadalhane^
&c, Mr. Stuart, if. VI.
The root confifts of a bundle of flefhy, brittle
cylindrical fibres, which grow fideways out of the
bafe of , the ftalk, at right angles. The whole
plant is.,jof an uniform pale brown, or fuille-
mort colour: the ftalk is ered, firm, brittle,
from a foot to a cubit high, deltitute of leaves,
hut furniilied with fufcous kales, or ftipuU,
ilicathlnf]; the ftalk: the flowers are numerous,
of the fame colour v/ith the ftalk, and grow in
;i thick cylindrical Ipike, thineft at the bafe:
the Brati&^e are hardly fo long as the germen :
the petals all connive: the lip has an oval con-
cavity at the bafe, and is femibifid at the end :
the fegn^icnts recede v/idely from each other, and
r.rr little Hiorter than I'le germen.
OPHRYS