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Mr J. E. Bicheno's Observations on the Orchis militaris.
to it; but the description is evidently drawn up from a foreign species, probably O. variegata, and the references are all transferred in the succeeding edition to another variety. This is ε of Linnæus.
This plant is easily known by the narrow segments of the lip, and the acuminated petals. It is a delicate, smaller plant than the other two, flowers early in May, and has a remarkably abrupt termination in the spike of flowers. The lip of the nectary is less scabrous than in either of the others. Vaillant, t. 31. f, 25. 26. has well represented the flower; but we believe that no modern figure has yet been published of this rare plant.
VII. Glyphis
