GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 45 



In woods and thickets, chiefly on a chalky soil. 



In Stoken Church woods, Oxfordshire. Ray. Westmoreland. Law- 

 son. Hertfordshire. Dr. Bales. Gloucestershire. Rev. Mr. Baker. 

 Surrey. Mr. Graves. Rare in Scotland. Lighifoot. Plentiful, 

 along with Orchis bifolia, in the beech woods above Hurley, and 

 Bisham Abbey, Berks. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping. Stem about a foot high, round, leafy, smooth like 

 the rest of the herb. Leaves rather elliptical than lanceolate, 

 sessile, clasping, acute, many-ribbed, not plaited, of a fine 

 green ; the uppermost narrowest, and gradually diminishing to 

 lanceolate spreading bracteas, longer than the flovvers, except 

 the upper ones, which are small and narrow, longer than the 

 germen, which is slender and without any downiness. Fl. nearly 

 or quite sessile, upright, large and handsome, but perfectly in- 

 odorous at all times j their calyx and corolla equally of a pure 

 milk-white, though soon turning brownish, and the whole flower 

 is seldom so fully expanded as the rest of the species. The con- 

 cave, abrupt, scarcely pointed Up is marked above with three 

 principal, and two smaller, yellow^ elevated, not wavy, parallel 

 lines. 



It does not appear why Swartz changed the original and expres- 

 sive name, grandiflora, for one that is equally applicable to the 

 next species. The authority of Linnaeus and Scopoli, to say no- 

 thing of others, ought to have been regarded by Willdenow, 

 who might well have been corrected in the Hort. Kew. 



5. E. ensifolia. Narrow-leaved White Helleborine. 



Leaves lanceolate, pointed. Bracteas minute, much shorter 

 than the smooth germen. Flowers sessile, erect. Lip 

 abrupt, half as long as the calyx, with elevated lines on 

 the disk. 



E. ensifolia. Sw. in Act. Hobn. for 1800. 232. Willd. Sp. PL 

 V. 4. 85. Br. as above, 202. Comp. ed. 4. 144, Hook. Scot. 255. 

 Loud. t. 77 . 



E. xiphophylla. Sw. Orch. 65. 



E. n. 1298, /S. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 155. 



E. n. 3, varietas /3. Hall, in Act. Helvet. v. 4. 107. 



Serapias ensifolia. Murr. in Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. 815 ; with er- 

 roneous synonyms. Fl. Br. 945. Engl. Bot. v, 7. t. 494. Purt. 

 u.2.428. <. 4. 



S. Xiphophyllum. Ehrh. in Linn. Suppl. 404. Phytoph. 67. 



S. longifolia y. Huds. 394. 



S. grandiflora. Fl. Dan. t. 506. 



Helleborine foliis praelongis angustis acutis. Rail Syn. 384, Herb. 

 Buddie. 



H. angustifolia, flore albo oblongo. Merr. Pin. 61. 



