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

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 525
The leaves are only two, finooth, oppofite, and
hcart-fliaped, and about half an inch wide ac
the bafe : the flowers grow in a thin fpike, ten
or twelve in number ; of a green colour, often
turning red in decay : the petals are lanceolate,
and (land wide open : the lip is femibifid, longer
than the germen, and has a dent on each fide at
the bafe, which is wanting in the preceding
fpecies : the fegments are acute, and often of a
dark red colour.
** Bidbis rctundis,
pahidofa 5. OPHRYS bulbo fubrotundo, fcapo fubnudo, pen-
tagono, foJiorum apicibus fcabris, ncctarii labio
integro. Sp. pi. 1341. i^Pluk. aim, /. 247. /. 2.
Vet. herb. i. 70, /. 1 7)
Marfli Opkrys. An^^Jis.
We have received information that this has been
found in feme maifhes near St. Andrews, but \vc
do not affirm it from our own knowledge. 1;.
VIII. IX.
The root confifts of one, and fometimes more
bulbs growing one above another, with fibres
fnooting from their bafe : tlie iialk is about a
finger's length, and has two or three alternate
oval-lanceolate leaves near its bafe, having their
inner margin towards the top ferrulated and
rough to the touch : the flowers are numerous,
twenty or thirty in a fpike, of a ycllowilh green
colour : the fide petals fold back and Hand e'recl ;
the lip of the ve'^arium is lanceolate and enrire.
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