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NEOTTIA aestivalis.
Summer Ladies-traces.
G YN A N D R IA Monandria.
Gen. Char. “ Sepals coloured, and petals converging-,
parallel with the lip ; lip shovel-shaped, ungui-
culate, with two fleshy projections at the base.
Column taper, club-shaped, distinct, with 2 teeth
at the apex. Stigma prominent, rostrate.”
Lindley.
Spec. Char. Tubers cylindrical, elongate. Radical
leaves linear-oblong; cauline narrowly lanceolate.
Spike lax.
Syn. Neottia aestivalis. Decand. FI. Fr. v. 3. 258.
Rot. Gall. 448. Host. FI. Aust. v. 2. 542.
Loisel. FI. Gall. v. 2. 273.
Spiranthes aestivalis. “ Rich.” Reich. Icon. cent.
2. 337. FI. Excurs. 127.
Ophrys aestivalis. Lam. Diet. 4. 567.
Epipactis n. 1294. Hall. Hist. t. 38.
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JL HIS elegant plant, which is noticed by Sir J. E. Smith
{Eng. FI. v. 4.p. 36.) as not having been found in Britain, I
had the pleasure of discovering in the island of Jersey on
the 25th of July 1837. It grows in a wet sandy spot upon
the banks of St. Ouen’s pond, but is far from plentiful even
there, and has not been gathered in any other part of the
island. It may be distinguished from N. autumnalis (Ophrys
spiralis, Engl. Bot. t. 541.) by its long upright leaves, slender
tubers and lax spike.
Stem from 2 or 3 inches to a foot in height, slender,