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SERAPIAS*' cordigera ; var. longipetala 



Pale heart-lipped Serapias. 



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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Ouchide^. §' Ophrydece. 



SERAPIAS Lmn. — Pollinia 2 granulata, caudiculis duabus glandula: 

 Unicae affixis, cucullo communi inclusee. Anthera antica, erecta, persistens. 

 Stigma subrotundum, concavum. Columna semiteres, ultra anthcram in 

 cuspide producta, Labellum trilobum^ lobis lateralibus erectls, medio de- 

 pendente acuminato. Sepala acuminata, conniventla, subsequalia. Herbae 



ierrestres (Europoe) ; 

 pauciflora. 



foliosis 



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S. cordigera ; bracteis coloratis floribus longioribus, Jabello basi bicalloso. 



cc. labello atro-fusco. 



S, cordigera. Linn, sp.pl. 1345. Bot. rep. ^15, &c. 



Helleborine cordigera. Sebast. rom.pl. fasc. 1. j5?13. t. 4. f. 2. Tenore 



jl. nap. 2. 315. V 



/3. longipetala ; labello pallido. 

 Helleborine longipetala. Tenore Jl. nap. prodr. p. 53. Sebast. Jl. rom. 



prodr. 312, 

 Helleborine pseudo-cordigera. Sebast. rom. pi. fasc. 1. p. 14. t. 4. f. 1. 

 Serapias lancifera. St. Avians fi. agen. p. 378. D'Urville in act. Linn. 



par. 1. 377. 



We cannot agree with the Italian and other Botanists 

 quoted above, in distinguishing this plant from S. cordigera, 

 to which it seems to us to belong in every essential respect. 

 The paleness of the flowers is, indeed, the only character 

 that can be readily seized to distinguish them. 



It is a beautiful spring flower, common about Rome in 

 very dry soil. _ It is also a native of the neighbourhood of 

 Agen, where it was found by M. de St. Amans; and 



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•'^- So called after the Egyptian divinity Serapis. 



