42 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 



as the flowers. Lip shorter than the calyx, entire. Ger- 

 men downy. 



In shady woods. 



Parasitical on the stump of a maple or hazle^ in a wood near the 

 Noris farm, at Leigh, Worcestershire, in 1807. Rev. Dr. Abbot. 



Perennial, Jujie. 



"' Root certainly parasitical. Whole plant, when fresh, glowing 

 with a beautiful red lilac colour j" changed in drying to a 

 tawny, not dark or black, brown, which it has since retained un- 

 altered. Stem about a foot high, round, finely downy, clothed 

 with alternate, sessile, many-ribbed, flat, not plaited, leaves, 

 about 2 inches long, their ribs and margins minutely rough j 

 the lower ones ovate-lanceolate ; upper linear-lanceolate as 

 they approach the flowers. Cluster a little drooping, at least be- 

 fore the flowers expand, cylindrical, dense. Bracteas solitary 

 under each partial stalk, nearly erect, linear, acute, straight, 

 long and narrow, being more than twice the length of the un- 

 expanded flowers. The latter are numerous, crowded, mostly 

 full-grown, but not yet expanded. On immersion in boiling 

 water, they prove to have all the characters of an Epipactis, with 

 a lip like the foregoing species, quite entire at the margin, and 

 somewhat pointed. The calyx is externally downy, as well as 

 the germen. 



Whether my late friend, to whom I am obliged for my only speci- 

 men, found any more, I cannot tell, but I hope this account 

 may lead to a further discovery of so curious and interesting a 

 plant, which cannot be referred to any known species. 



3. E. palustris. Marsh Helleborine. 



Leaves lanceolate, clasping the stem. Flow^ers drooping. 

 Lip rounded, obtuse, crenate, as long as the petals, with 

 a notched protuberance on the disk. 



E. palustris. Sw.Orch.64. Willd.Sp.PLv.4.84. Br.asabove/202. 



Camp. erf. 4, 144. Hook. Scot. 254. Lond. t. 89. 

 E. n. 1296. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 154. t. 39. 

 E. n. 5. Hall, in Act. Helvet. v.4.]\l. 

 Serapias palustris. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 204. Fl. Br. 944. Engl. Bot. 



V.4. t.270. Light/. 527. Curt. Cat. 72. 108. 

 S. longifolia. Linn. Sijst. Nat. ed. 1 2. v. 2. 593. Ehrh. Phyt. 47. 



Purt.v. 2. 429. 

 S. longifolia /3, 7. Linn. Sp. PI. 1345. 

 Helleborine. Fl Dan. t. 267. 

 H. angustifolia palustris, sive pratensis. Bauh, Pin. 187. Moris. 



v.3.4S7.sect. 12. Ml./. 7. 

 H. palustris nostras. RaiiSyn. 384. 



