The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

Of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt the woods, I know none so exquisite as that night-scented orchis which is called indifferently, the butterfly or the lily of the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

A kind of orchis, and used, with its various appellations, "sensu obsc.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection] Reference

And the wild rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

And the brier rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference

Exit orchis: A little action now would save our fast disappearing wildlife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aldo Leopold (Complete Bibliography)] Reference

Lying on the doorsill she found some fragrant spikes of late-blooming orchis tied with a grass blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

The entire party then sat down upon a rustic bench, shrouded with flowering orchis and Spanish jasmine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

There the lambs came bleating to her, and the orchis lifted up, and the thin dead leaves of clover lay for the new ones to spring through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

Shades of delicately carved ivory, softened the light to a faint opal tint, and all around stood pots of orchis, peonies, and daisies, which filled the air with delicious perfume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference

Spiranthes, marsh Epipactis, and any other rare orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody] Reference

Wind flowers and columbine; orchis sweet as any hyacinth; tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

See note on orchis, and on anthoxanthum, in Vol.II. of this work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

One small green orchis stood in the grass, alone; the harebells were many.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

This flower is, perhaps, like the English fragrant orchis, found in pastures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

Here the lovely orchis tribe adorn the gloomy shades with their brilliant flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

I am infinitely obliged for your most clearly stated observations on the bee-orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Many of the low-growing wildflowers have been spattered with mud, but this showy orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Lands Trust Preserve Blog] Reference

Occasionally one would alight on the sward among the purple flowers of the meadow orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

But I have lately had an orchis in flower -- viz. Acineta, which I could not anyhow fertilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

He speaketh now of antimony and orchis, but I fear -- I fear he can give nothing to do any good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference

The first to bloom in the spring is the showy orchis, though it is far less showy than several others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

They were of two kinds: close to the water's edge the marsh orchis, and farther back, a small marguerite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freelands] Reference

Will you please to read the enclosed, and then you will understand what I wish observed with respect to the bee-orchis.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Again, amongst the orchis tribes, foreign specimens of which are often so valuable, we find very singular marks and shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference