The British Flower Garden, (Series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of ...
The British Flower Garden, (Series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of ...
Robert Sweet
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484. Orchis lacera. Mich, fin: amer. 2. p. 166. PwrnLJl. amer. sept. 2. p.686. Per$. sifn. 2. p. 503. '' Root composed of 2 long tubers, about the thickness of a quill, about 4 inches in length, running down nearly perpendicular, andof equal thickness." Pfaw^when inflower, fipora 18 inches to 2 feet in height, erect, leafy, sharply an- gled, smooth, somewhat glaucous. Leaves several, sheathing tiie stem at the base, lanceolate, acute, sharply keeled un- derneath, striated with numerous longitud...inal lines, deeply channelled on the upper side, of a pale glaucous green, par- ticularly underneath. Spike terminal, many-flowered, from 5 to 7 inches in length. Bractes leaf-like, the lower ones nearly twice the length of the flowers ; upper ones smaller, scarcely so long as the flower ; all lanceolate, acute, of a thin texture, and more or less channelled on the upper side. Flowers of a greenish white, elegantly jagged. Perianthium ringent, smooth ; upper leaflet short, ovate, obtuse, concave inwards, curved downwards at the point, striated ; the 2 lower ones rather smaller, also ovate and obtuse, striated, bending back when the flower is fully exps^ded ; 2 inner side ones linear, obtuse, spreading, of a greenish white.
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