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Limodorum Altum. Tall Limodorum, 



Clafs and Order. 

 Gynandria Diandria. 



Generic CharacJer. 



Neclarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum intra pe- 

 talum infimum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



LIMODORUM altum j floribus imberbibus, fpicis fubpanicu- 

 latis. Hort. Kew. 3, p. 301. Mart. Mill. 

 Dicl. n. 2. 



LIMODORUM altum. L'Herit. Sert. Ang. 28. 



HELLEBORINE americana, radice tuberofa, foliis longis 

 anguftis, caule nudo, floribus ex rubro pal- 

 lide purpurafcentibus. Mart. Cent. 50. /. 50. 

 Mill. Ic. t. 145. 



LIMODORUM altum. Syjl. Veg. Murr. 816 ? Sp. PL Reich. 

 4. p. 32 ? Swartz. ObJ. 323 f 



HELLEBORINE radice arundinacea, foliis ampliflimis ly- 

 ratis. Plum. Ic. 1 89 ? 



SATYRIUM 10, foliis liratis longiffimis, fcapo florifero par- 

 tial!, fubfquamofo. Brown Jam. p. 325 . ? 



It is not altogether certain that the plant, here figured, is the 

 real Limodorum altum of Linn^us. The fpecimen in the 

 Bankfian Herbarium, marked as correfponding with that in 

 the Linnean, has a Ample, ered fcape, anfwenng very well to 

 Plumier's figure above referred to: whereas the flowering 

 ftem in this is, for the raoft part, branched a confiderable part 

 of its length. As it is however undoubtedly the fpecies meant 

 to be charaBerized in the Hortus Kewenfis and in Marty n s 

 Miller's Didionary, in a cafe of uncertainty, we think it 

 fcfeft to retain the name bv which it has long been known in 

 our gardens ; expreffing our doubt of the fynonyms, which, 

 i ° agreeing 



