DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Serapias. 41 



E, hat. TfQ-Hall. 39. at ii. /. 15A-F/. dan. iGj-Ptt. 70. 8 

 ~Clus. i. 273. 1 -£>*/. 384-Io£. o£/. 16,9; *'r. i. fcf 312, 1. 





*-Ger.em. 442. \-Park. 21S. 4-/V/. 70, 5-Flower only, 

 Crantz. vi. 1, 5* 



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Flowers as large again as in the preceding species. Nectary 

 adhering to the other petals ; the hollow part marked with pur- 

 ple lines. Haller. — 'The outfer half of the lip so slightly at- 

 tached as to be shaken off by a small motion, and is often blown 

 off by the wind while the plant is growing. Mr. Wood. — 

 Flowers mostly from one side of the stem. Lip divided trans- 

 versely almost through ; the half next the receptacle boat-shaped, 

 with purplp ribs, and at bottom with a yellow line, spotted with 

 orange ; the outer half hanging down, roundish, with an angular 

 bulging appendage at the base, in which, previous to the expan- 

 sion of the flower, the anthers were inclosed. Germen long and 

 narrow, which, in S. lati/olia, is short and inversely egg-shaped, 

 when fully grown elliptical. Woodward. — Leaves sometimes 

 egg-spear-shaped, with 7 ribs. Mr. Hollefear. — and some- 

 times egg-oblong and blunt. Fruit-stalks downy, thread-shaped. 

 Germens downy 9 slightly scored, long, tapering down to the 

 fruit-stalks, and a little towards the point. St. — Spike about 4 

 inches long, flowers from 6 to 12, much wider set than in the 

 preceding species. Fruit-stalk and germens woolly ; the latter 

 uniform, not bulging on the upper side. 



The trivial names latifolia (broad-leaved) and longifolia 

 (long 



lengths 

 of the lip, and the shape of the germens will always discrimi- 

 nate these 2 species ; and should the woolliness of the fruit-stalk* j 

 the flower and the germens be constant in this last species, and! 

 always wanting in the first, as it is in the specimens now before 

 me, their distinctions will be always obvious at first sight. 



Marsh Helleborine. S. palustrh. E. hot. Marshy and 

 watery places. Bogs at Chisselhurst. Ray. — Dry chalky ground, 

 as in the old chalk pits by the White House, between Eltham 

 and North Cray. Sherard in R. Syn. — [Plentifully in one mo- 

 rassy spot of 2 or 3 acres, within a mile of Leeds, and hitherto I 

 have observed it no where else. Mr. Wood. — Swampy mea- 

 dows Robison's street, on the borders of Malvern Chace, Wor- 

 cestershire. Mr. Ballard. — Bogs in Norfolk, frequent. Mr. 

 Woodward.— Knutsford Moor, Cheshire. Mr. Aikin.] 



P. July, Aug. 



S. Leaves sword-shaped, pointing from 2 opposite lines : ensifo'lia 



floral -leaves very minute : flowers upright : lip of 

 the nectary blunt, shorter than the petals. 



£. bet. 494.-F/. dmh 500. 



