42 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 



S. Helleborine a. Linn. Sp. PI. 1344. 



Helleborine. Ger. Em.AA2.f. Dod. Pempt.384.f. Lob. Ic. 3\2.f. 

 H. latifolia montana. Ran Sijn. 383, Baiih. Pin. 186. 

 (3. H. altera, atro rubente fiore. Raii Sijn. 383. Herb. Buddie. 

 Bauh. Pin. I8G. 



In shady mountainous woods and thickets. 



^. On the sides of mountains near Malham, Settle, and other 

 places in the north. Ray, Mr. fVoodivard, &; Mr. D. Turner. At 

 the bottom of the scar of Barrowfield wood, near Kendall. Mr. 

 Crowe. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root mnderately creeping, with simple, downy radicles. Stems 

 several, about 2 feet high, round, copiously leafy j sheathed at 

 the base ; most downy upwards. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, 

 bright green, smooth, ribbed and plaited like those of a Veratrum ; 

 various in breadth ; sheathing at the base ; the upper ones gra- 

 dually smaller and more lanceolate; all thin, rather rigid, not 

 at all fleshy. Cluster erect, downy, of many alternate droop- 

 ing Jlowers, on short partial stalks, with a linear-lanceolate 

 bractea to each, of which 3 or 4 of the lowermost only reach be- 

 yond the flower, the rest being shorter. Germen obovate, downy. 

 Cal. and pet. ovate, acute, nearly equal in size and colour, be- 

 ing all green, more or less tinged with brown or dull purple. 

 Nect. shorter than either, its terminal lobe heart-shaped with a 

 small acute point ; the margin entire, a little wavy, purplish ; 

 disk tumid, smooth, dull red, or tawny. Anth. strictly terminal, 

 broadly elliptical, deflexed, fixed, with 2 close elliptic-oblong 

 cells, which deposit their simple yellow pollen-7nasses on the 

 upper edge of the large, angular, prominent stigma. 



j3, preserved in Buddie's herbarium, is more downy, with later 

 Jlowers, of a darker red in every part. 



The Jlowers in Dr. Hooker's plate are of a light purple hue, dif- 

 ferent from any I have seen ; their lip somewhat crenate, and 

 the germen smooth. A specimen much like this figure, but in 

 which the Up is perfectly entire, was sent me from Worcester- 

 shire many years ago, as a new species. The reputed varieties 

 of E. latifolia perhaps require more scientific examination than 

 they have hitherto received. Ehrhart's Serapias parvifolia. 

 Herb. 1 20, afterwards, as it seems, called by himself, to no pur- 

 pose, microphylla, Beitr. v. 4. 42, in which change he is followed 

 by Swartz, Willdenow and Hoffmann, may possibly be our /3. 

 Yet this appears, by my Swiss and Italian specimens, very di- 

 stinct from the common E. latifolia. I have never met with it 

 in Britain. 



2. E. purpuraia. Purple-leaved Helleborine. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Bracteas linear, all twice as long 



