Orchis Foliosa (Leafy Orchis) may be grown in the open ground in good sandy loam.
In early summer the fragrant spikes of the rein-orchis stand half-concealed under the trees and along the banks bordering wooded mountain roads.
These are so modest, one would hardly suspect they belonged to the showy orchis family.
From July to September we may look for the milk-white rein-orchis in moist meadows.
Later on appear the rosy crimson spikes of the pyramidal orchis and the pale lemon flowers of lady's fingers, and the drooping blue-flowered campanula.
The orchis binds her feather on For her old lover, Don the Sun, Revisiting the bog!
Her face is rounder than the moon, And ruddier than the gown Of orchis in the pasture, Or rhododendron worn.
One of the simpler contrivances is readily studied in the little spring-orchis (Fig.
No less than three species of Orchideae occurred, a family which more than any other dislikes dryness: these were Orchis latifolia, an Epipactis, and an Herminium.
The stream which ran by the village had in some places spread out into a marshy meadow, in which a large pink-flowered Cardamine or Dentaria occurred plentifully, with Orchis latifolia?
A very acceptable addition to our knowledge of the Orchis tribe.
Than orchisor anemone; For it the maiden left them both, And parted from her company.
The Pelham woods Were full of doves that cooed at ease; The orchis filled her purple hoods For dainty bees.
Purple orchis lasteth long, Primrose flowers are pale and clear; O the maiden sang a song It would do you good to hear!
Diagram of flower of Orchis mascula with two additional lips, two perfect and two imperfect stamens (after Cramer).
Morren[454] describes some flowers of Orchis morio in which there were three sepals, three petals, and within the latter two other ternary series of petals; this would seem to be a case of petalody of all six stamens.
Median prolification inOrchis pyramidalis, the outer segments of the perianth regular and reflexed.
Orchis pyramidalis in which the perianth was nearly regular, the central portions of the flower absent, and their place supplied by a new miniature raceme.
Roeper is stated by Cramer[441] to have seen a specimen of Orchis morio with two stamens.
Von Martius mentions the occurrence of three anthers (naturaliter conformatæ) in Orchis morio.
Richard, as cited by Moquin-Tandon, Lindley, and others, describes and figures a peloria of Orchis latifolia with regular triandrous flowers.
A hexandrous flower of Orchis militaris has been recorded by Kirschleger,[452] and in the accompanying diagram (fig.
The root of the Early Purple Orchis consists of two egg-shaped knobs, and above these knobs grow many white, worm-like rootlets.
Or of a Massachusetts poet, who finds the snowdrop and the early primrose blooming along his native streams, with the orchis and the yellow violet, and makes the blackbird conspicuous among New England songsters?
By way of undergrowth, the ground was carpeted with Geranium sylvaticum, Ranunculus repens, and large patches of Orchis maculata, etc.
The dwarfed habit was well shown by some plants, such as Orchis maculata, which was very common on the slopes, and was only a few inches high.
There is a species of the orchis found in the mountainous parts of Lincolnshire, Kent, &c.
One small green orchis stood in the grass, alone; the harebells were many.
Purple vetches along the mounds, yellow lotus where the grass is shorter, and orchis succeeds to orchis.
From the spotted orchis leaves in April to the honeysuckle-clover in June, and the rose and the honeysuckle itself, the meadow has changed in nothing that delights the eye.
China Aster remained standing just where Orchis had left him; when, suddenly, two elderly friends, having nothing better to do, dropped in for a chat.
Whether Orchis at the time had this in mind or not, there is no sure telling; but, to all appearance, he never so much as cared to think about the matter, one way or other.
Seeing, now, that Orchis had the notion that the candle-making business was a very profitable one, and knowing sorely enough what an error was here, China Aster tried to undeceive him.
Not thatOrchis was, by prosperity, elated into heartlessness.
Upon which Orchis said: 'Why, China Aster, you are the dolefulest creature.
For was not that loan of Orchis to China Aster the first step towards their estrangement?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orchis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
