Mu'axis.] ORCHIDE^. ^81 



Moist and sandy ground. Plentiful at Portmarnoek, and marshy 

 ground about Enniskerry, and other similar situations. On the shore 

 near Belfast; Mr. Templeton. Fl. July. %.—Stem one foot high, 

 purplish above. Calyx purple green ; lateral petals and lip white, 

 with rose-coloured streaks at the base. 



3. E. grandijlora, Sm. Large White Helleborine. "Leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate, sessile ; bracteas much longer than the erect 

 flowers; perianth patent ; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe large, oval, 

 retuse, shorter than the rest of the perianth." Br. Fl. 1. p. 378. 

 E. FL v. iv. p. 43. — E. pattens, Sw. — Hook in FL Lond. N. S. 

 t. 7G. — Serapias grandijlora, Linn. — E. Bot. t. 271. 



Woods. Found by Mr. Geo. Whitla, in the County of Antrim, in 

 July 1835 ; Mr. Campbell. Fl. June. %. — "Stem a foot or more high. 

 Calyx-leaves and petals nearly equal, large, oblongo-ovate, white, con- 

 cave, including the small lip, which is also white, but yellowish within. 

 Column of fructilication in this and the following species very long : 

 in the preceding ones very short." 



4. E. ensifolia, Sw. Narroro-leaved Wliite Helleborine. 

 Leaves lanceolate, much acuminated, subdistichous ; bracteas 

 very minute, subulate; flowers erect; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe 

 large, roundish, obtuse, much shorter than the rest of the pe- 

 rianth. Br. Fl. 1. p. 379. Hook, in FL Lond. N. S. t. 77. 

 E. Fl. v. iv. p. 44 — Serapias ensifolia, Linn. — E. Bot. t. 494. 



Wood at Glengariff, where I first observed it, in company with the 

 late Miss Hutchins, but without flowers, when I thought it might have 

 been E. pattens of Brown in Hort. Kew., and inserted it in my cata- 

 logue under that name. Miss Hutchins having since sent me flowering 

 specimens, I am now enabled to correct my mistake. Fl. June. 21. — 

 Readily distinguished by its long lanceolate leaves, the uppermost of 

 which is almost linear, and by its very minute bracteas. 



* * * * Anther terminal, deciduous. Pollen-masses at length 



waxy. 



8. Malaxis. Swarlz. Bog-Orchis. 



Perianth spreading ; lip without a spur, very small, superior, 

 undivided: two lateral petals reflexed, smaller than the calyx- 

 leaves. Column very short. Pollen-masses in two pairs. — 

 Name : /laA-aius, softness, from the tender nature of the plant. 



Gynandria. Monandria. 



1. M. paludosa, Swartz. Marsh Bog-Orchis. Leaves 4 — 

 5 oval, very concave, papillose at the extremity ;* lip concave, 



* These papilla; the Rev. Professor Henslow has clearly ascertained to be 

 little bulbous gemma, as he has described and figured them in the Gardener's 

 Magazine, v. 1. p. 442. — Mr. W. Wilson confirms this interesting state- 

 ment, and further finds an hybernaculum formed in the autumn among the 

 decayed leaves. Thus, independent of the seeds, this curious little plant has 

 a two- fold mode of increase. Hook 



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