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O R C H I S conopfea.
Aromatic Orchis.
GYN AND R IA Diandria.
G en. C har. Nebiary a fpur behind the flower.
Spec. Char. Bulbs palmated. Ne&ary very lender
and acute, longer than the germen; lip in
three parts. Two of the petals fpreading very
much.
Syn . Orchis conopfea. Linn. Sp. PL 1335. Hudf. FI.
An. 385. With. Bot. Arr. 977. Re lb. Cantab.
335-
Palmata rubella cum longis calcaribus rubellis. Rail
Syn. 381.
T H IS Orchis is found in wet paftures and bogs, in June
and July. Its flowers are highly fragrant, approaching in fmell
to the red clove pink ; their colour varies from deep purplilh
red, to flelh colour, and even white. Its leaves are long, and
narrower than thofe of any other Englifh fpecies.
The fpecific name Conopfea alludes to a fancied refem-
blance of the flowers of this plant to the genus of infedts called
Conops by Linnseus. In many other fpecies of this tribe the
flowers much more evidently refemble infects.
