40 DIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Serapias. 



SERA'PIAS. Bhss, 6 petals, expanding i Nectary 



egg-shaped, bulging : Lip egg-shaped : Cap, 

 beneath, 1 -celled, 3-valved. 



iatifc/lia. S. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, embracing the stem: flowers 



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nearly horizontal: lip pointed, entire, rather shorter 

 than the petals . . 



JE. hot. 26£-FL dan. %U-Gunn. ii. .5. 3 to6-HalL 40. 2.*# 



ii. /. l5b~FIo<wer only, Crantz. vi. 1.6. 



Spike many- flowered, long. Fruit-stalk long. Flowers and 

 fruit pendant. Nectary without lines. Lin w.^— With a heart- 

 shaped prominence at the base. Hallkr. — Leaves and floral-* 

 leaves becoming gradually narrower as they ascend. Spike very 

 long. Germen pear-shaped. Woopward. — Root, fibres thick, 

 thread-shaped, hairy. Stems more or less of a brownish purple. 

 Leaves all embracing the stem. Spike from 3 to 8 inches long. 

 Flowers from 6 to 20, or more, much closer se$ than in the next 

 "* species. CaL leaves 3, brownish green, broad spear-shaped, 

 keeled. Petals, the 2 lateral ones resembling the leaves of the 

 calyx ; purplish green. Nectary, the upper lip glandular, white, 

 fleshy ; the lower distended at the bottom into a nearly globu- 

 lar hollow ; purple within, and of a brownish green without 

 towards the end flat, purplish, and somewhat scolloped. Anthers 

 yellowish white, connected to their case by a milk-white glo- 

 bular substance. Pistils 2, white, fleshy, fixed on the glandular 

 receptacle. Capsule inversely egg-shaped, bulging on the upper 

 side, smooth, or nearly smooth. 



Common Helleborine. Bastard Hellebore. Woods, groves, 



and hedges. [Common in the North Riding of Yorkshire, but 

 1 have, as yet, seen only one within 50 miles of Leeds. Mr. 

 Wood. — Matlock, Derbyshire, and northern counties, as Buck- 

 ham Wood, Cumberland, and in an elevated situation at the foot 

 of Conzick Scar, four miles from Kendal, amongst loose stones 

 and rubbish, not accessible without some danger. Mr. Woodw. 

 In the red rock plantation, Edgbaston Park.] P. July, Aug. 



Var. 2. Huds. — Blossoms blackish red. Leaves narrower, 

 closer set. It flowers later. Ray.— Leaves variously oval-spear- 

 shaped, much iQnger and narrower than in I . Flowers very 

 dark coloured. Corresponding exactly with FL dan. 8 1 1, ex- 

 cept that the spike was much longer. Woodward. 



Sides of mountains near Malham, Yorkshire. Ray. — Woods 

 in Westmoreland and Cumberland. Mr. Woodward. P. A U S* 



longifolia. $. Leaves spear-shaped, embracing the steip : flowers 



nearly horizontal : lip scolloped^ blunt, longer than 





the petals. 



