orchises

Flower-gardens at least were there in plenty; for every limb was covered with pendent cactuses, gorgeous orchises, and wild pines; and while one-half the tree was clothed in rich foliage, the other half, utterly leafless, bore on every twig brilliant yellow flowers, around which humming-birds whirred all day long.

Westward Ho! 2007

During twelve years spent amid the grandest tropical vegetation, I have seen nothing comparable to the effect produced on our landscapes by gorse, broom, heather, wild hyacinths, hawthorn, purple orchises, and buttercups.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I have never seen in the tropics such brilliant masses of colour as even England can show in her furze-clad commons, her heathery mountain-sides, her glades of wild hyacinths, her fields of poppies, her meadows of buttercups and orchises — carpets of yellow, purple, azure-blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Myriads of flowers gleam in their own atmosphere of living light, like jewels among the rich herbage, so that the feet can hardly be set down without crushing scores of them: the _Orchis rubra_ with its splendid spike of crimson blossoms, the bee and spider orchises in great variety, whose flowers mimic the insects after whom they are named, sweet-scented alyssum, golden buttercups and hawkweeds, Roman daisies, larger and taller than the

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The great azure campanulas, or Canterbury bells, are there in bloom, and, in chalk or limestone districts, there are also now to be found those curiosities, the _bee_ and _fly orchises_.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various

Finished planting my auriculas: went a-botanizing after ferns and orchises, and caught a cold in the wet grass, which has made me as bad as ever.

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

After the enclosure they will despoil a boggy place that is famous for orchises at Royce Wood end.

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

"When we were on the common yesterday, she found two new orchises, and gave them to me to press."

The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

The woods in the combe below the moor were a mass of bluebells, and here and there those who searched might find rarer flowers, orchises, lily of the valley, and true lover's knot.

A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

Irene, running up a bank in quest of bee-orchises, broke her new cane into four pieces, but was somewhat consoled by a stick which Michael cut her from a chestnut tree.

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907