GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 43 



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

 men downy. 



In shady woods. 



Parasitical on the stump of a maple or hazel, in a wood near 

 the Noris farm^ at Leigh, Worcestershire, in 1 807- Rev. Dr. 

 Abbut. 



Perennial. June. ' 



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

 with a beautiful red lilac colour;" 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 ; 

 the lower ones ovate-lanceolate ; up])er linear-lanceolate as 

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

 fore the flowers expand, cylindrical, dense. Bracleas solitary 

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

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

 expandedy/oM'ers. 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. Yt. palustris. Marsh Helleborine. 



Leaves lanceolate, clasping the stem. Flowers drooping. 

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

 a notched protuberance on the disk. 



E. palustris. Sw. Orch. 64. fVilld.Sp. Pl.v. 4.84. Br. as above, 202. 



Comp. ed. 4. 144. Hook. Scot. 254. Lond. t. 89. 

 E. n. 1296. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 1 54. t. 39. 

 E. n. 5. Hall, in Act. Helvet. v. A. 111. 

 Serapias palustris. Scop. Carn. v. 2. 204. Fl. Br. 944. Engl. Bat. 



v. 4. t. 2/0. Light/. 527. Curt. Cat. n. 108. 

 S. longifolia. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. ]2.v. 2. 593. Ehrh. Phyt. 47. 



Purt.v.2.429. 

 S. longifolia j3,y, Linn. Sp. PL 1345. 

 Helleborine. Fl. Dan. t. 267. 

 H. angustifolia palustris, sivepratensis. Bawft. Pin. 187. Moris. 



V. 3^. 487. sect. 12. t. 11./. 7. 

 H, palustris nostras. Raii Syn. 384. 



