952 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
EPIPACTIS GRANDIFLORA. Large White Helleborme. A 
beautiful flower, found in woods and thickets in a chalky 
soil. Stem about a foot high. Leaves not confined to the 
root like many of the Orchis genus, but scattered on the 
stem, without stalks. Flowers single and drooping. Calyx 
and petals nearly equal, large, oblong, white, including the 
small lip which is also white, but with a bright orange spot 
on the inner side. It is a beautiful flower, and is occasion- 
ally found of a purplish hue. 
DimciA. HEXANDRIA. 
PETALOIDES. TAME. 
TAMUS. (Buack Bryony.) 
Generic Character. Barren flower bell-shaped ; divided into 
six deep segments. Fertile, the same, but contracted at the 
neck. Berry having three cells. 
Tamus communis. Common Black Bryony. Common 
in hedges and thickets, but not in the north, or in Scotland. 
The stems are very twining, and ascend without the aid of 
tendrils, the tallest bushes hanging their fine red berries, 
in the autumn, above the head of the passer by. The 
