120 ENGLISIL BOTANY. 
SPECIES I—LISTERA CORDATA. Qf. Pr. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXVI. 
Reich. Te. Fl. Germ. et Helv, Vol. XIII. Tab, CCCCLXXX. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 174. 
Neottia cordata, Rich. Teich. fil. l.c. p. 149. 
Ophrys cordata, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 358. 
toot-fibres few. Stem slender, fragile. Leaves 2, subopposite, 
sessile, deltoid-ovate or rhombic-deltoid, obtuse-angled or subcordate 
at the base. Flowers in a rather short lax raceme. Sepals and lateral 
petals spreading, the former strapshaped-oblong; labellum twice as 
long as the sepals, 3-lobed from the base; the lateral lobes linear- 
strapshaped ; the middle lobe broader and more than twice as long as 
the lateral lobes, cleft at the apex about half-way up into 2 linear- 
strapshaped segments, which are longer than the lateral lobes, Column 
with a crest in which the anther is included. 
In damp places on heaths and open woods. (Generally distributed, 
but very scarce in the south of England. Not uncommon in the north 
and in Scotland, extending north to Orkney. Local, but widely dis- 
tributed in Ireland, except in the south and middle of the island. 
England, Scotland, Ireland, Perennial. Summer, Autumn, 
+] ’ 
Rootstock very slender, creeping, emitting slender brittle fleshy 
radical fibres. Stem 2 to 9 inches high, with 2 or 3 membranous 
sheaths at the base, and 2 leaves about the middle or below it; one of 
these leaves sheathes the other, but so closely that they appear to be 
opposite. Leaves from } to 1 ‘inch long, deep shining green above, 
paler beneath, somewhat fleshy ; rarely there are 3 or even 4 leaves all 
close together. Spike $ to 2} inches long. Bracts much shor ter than the 
pedicels, deltoid, yellowish-green. Perianth segments 4); inch long 
the labellum about +} inch long; the whole yellowish- olive einige 
with purplish-brown or dull reddish- -purple. Rachis and pedicels 
glabrous. 
Lesser Tway Blade. 
French, Néottie en cwur, German, Herzblittriges Zweiblatt, 
SPECIES IL—LISTERA OVATA. 2. Br. 
Prate MCCCCLXXVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXIX 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. 
Neottia ovata, “ Bluff et Fingerhuth.” Reich. fil. l.c. p. 147. Crep. Man. FI. Belg. 
ed. ii. p. 296. 
Ophrys ovata, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1548, 
Root-fibres numerous. Stem rather stout, not fragile. Leaves 2, 
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