Loudon's encyclopædia of plants : comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain / [J.C. Loudon].

John Claudius Loudon

Date:: 1855

Credit: Loudon's encyclopædia of plants : comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain / [J.C. Loudon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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L. Neottia. Nidus avis IV. bird's-nest / A ™ 1 SPIRAN'THES. Rich. Spiranthes. procera Hook. tessellata Lodd. DIU'RIS. Sw. aurea Sw. England ch.pa. Europe Spain 1818. So. 1. Switzerl. 1824. Sp. 1. England ch.ba. Sp 2—4 S. Europe 1786. S. Europe 1806. Sp. 5—9. Scotland N. Amer. S. Amer. Nepal R h.l R h.l R h.l R s.p Eng. bot. 64 Bot. mag. 2516 Hook. ex. fl. 10 R l.p Eng. bot. 71 al.wo. 1802. 1815. 1821. p'icta Lindl. Lemon-scented £ [Z3 pr 2 elata Lindl. tall £ [Z3 pr 2 pudica Lindl. modest [23 pr { bicolor Lindl. two-colored ]£ [23 pr 1 cernua Rich. nodding-flower. ^ A pr 1 aestivalis Rich. Ladies-traces A Pr % STENORHYN'CHUS. Rich. Stenorhvnchus. speciosus Rich. showy £ 123 el 1 orchioides Rich. frosted-flower'd£ [23 el lj LISTE'RA. R. Br. Tway-blaoe. ovata H. K. common :3l A cu 1 cordata H. K. heart-leaved ^ A ™ I . ARETHU'SA. L. Arethusa. bulbosa H. K. bulbous A lAI el Orchidece. j ... Y Orchidece. ja.mr G au Br Orchidece. my Br Orchidece. ap.jn W ap.jn W n.d Pk ja.f W jl W | au.s W Orchidece. ap.jn Sc I my F Orchidece. my.jn G jn.jl G Orchidece. \ my.jn Pk N. Amer. 1821. Sp. 1. N. S. W. 1810. Sp. 2. W. Indies 1800. S.Vincent 1822. R lp R l.p D Lp D l.p D l.p D l.p D Lp Bot. cab. 655 Bot. rep. 475 Eng. bot. 289 Lind. coll. 25 Bot. reg. 271 Hook. ex. fl. 3; Bot. cab. 952 R l.p Exot. bot. 1.1.9 D l.p D Lp Bot. mag. 842 Bot. reg. 760 Sp. 1. Britain ch.wo. R l.p Eng. bot. 48 Sp. 6—13. Trinidad 1805. W. Indies 1790. China 1819. Trinadad 1823. N. Amer. 1796. Britain me.pa. Sp. 2—7. W. Indies 1790. Jamaica 1806. Sp. 2. Britain Britain woods, moi.h. D s.p D s.p D s.p D s.p D Lp D Lp D s.p D s.p R l.p R l.p Bot. mag. 1562 Bot. mag. 2026 Lindl. coll. 30 Bot. reg. 794 Bot. mag. 1568 Eng. bot. 541 Bot. mag. 1374 Bot. mag. 1036 Eng. bot. 1548 Eng. bot. 358 12839 12842 Sp. 1—4. N. Amer. 12846 R Lp Bot. mag. 2204 12844 12843< 12849 History, Use, Propagation, Culture, Sweet directs, to rub the pollen on the stigma. The seeds must be sown as soon as ripe, and the plants transplanted to where they are finally to remain, when of a small size. Several species of this genus, and of Orchis, were successfully cultivated by Collinson, in his botanic garden at Mill-Hill His method was to place them in a soil and situation as natural to them as possible, and to suffer the grass and herbage to grow round them. O. aranifera, with a little attention and management, will grow and flower freely in pots. Curtis found the following method successful: take up the roots carefully when in flower; bare them no more than is necessary to remove the roots of the other plants ; fill a large sized garden-pot with three parts choice loam moderately stiff, and one part chalk, mixed well together, and passed through a sieve somewhat finer than a common cinder sieve; in this mixture place your roots at about the depth of two inches, and three inches apart; water them occasionally during summer, if the weather prove dry ; at the approach of winter place the pot in a frame under a glass, to keep it from wet and frost, which combined, destroy the beauty of the foliage, if not the plant itself; in the autumn, before any of the others make their appearance, this species emerges. {Curtis, Fl. Lond. n. 68.) Salisbury says, that Ophrys muscifera, and most of its congeners, are very easily cultivated; but require the purest loam from a chalky bottom, and the border to be most effectually drained ; for any permanent wet in summer makes them push too soon. On the hillocks and declivities where they grow wild, the slight showers are absorbed by the surrounding turf or long grass, and the heavy rains we usually have after midsummer- day run oflf quickly. 1867. Chamorchis. From ^«/^ai, dwarf, and Orchis. A pretty little alpine plant, exceedingly difficult to cultivate. Roots have been brought in damp moss from Switzerland, but they probably have perished ere now. 1868. Herminium. A name which is not explained by its author. It is the Ophrys Monorchis of old botanists. 1869. Serapias is the name of an Egyptian divinity, whose temples were notorious scenes of profligacy. In this sense, with reference to the uses of the plant, as also in Sntyrium, the word seems to have been applied by Pliny. Rare herbaceous plants of the south of Europe, but cultivated in a frame. 1870. Goodyera. So called after Mr. John Goodyer, an obscure British botanist. The species grow freely in sandy peat, and, unlike most of the Orchidea:, may be increased by dividing the roots.$