124 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
as far north as Linlithgow. Smith described his E. purpurata from a 
specimen found by the Rey. Dr. Abbot in a wood near the Norys 
Farm, at Leigh, Worcestershire, and the figure in “ English Botany 
Suppl.” was drawn from a specimen procured by Mr. J. Forbes from 
woods at Woburn Abbey, Bedford. In Ireland it has been noticed 
at Killarney, co. Kerry; in co. Dublin; and in woods at Glenarm 
Park, co. Antrim. 
England, Scotland (?), Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, 
early Autumn. 
Stem solitary from the extremity of the branches of the rootstock, 
slender, wiry, 2 to 3 feet high. Lowest leaves 14 to 2 inches long, 
by } to 1 inch broad; middle leaves 2} to 4 inches long, much nar- 
rower in proportion; uppermost leaves still narrower, and passing 
gradually into bracts. Raceme 6 to 9 inches long, with numerous 
flowers spreading towards all sides but one. Perianth segments nearly 
3 inch long. 
The Reigate and Claygate plants are the only ones I have seen in a 
living state. These are not at all tinged with purple, and have the 
flowers pale yellowish-green, with the labellum sometimes as long as 
the calyx segments, but generally a little shorter. 
Specimens of E. violacea, Durand-Duquesnay, from Lisieux, agree 
well with E. purpurata, Sm., but the French plant is said to have a 
thickened rhizome, producing tufts of stems, which I cannot verify 
from my specimens, which are only detached stems. The Reigate plant 
grows in dense tufts, but each stem, or at most each pair “of stems, 
comes from a separate branch of the rootstock. 
I cannot be sure that this is E. media of Fries, from his quoting 
Reichenbach’s figure of E. atrorubens, and from several points in his 
description, especially as, in comparing it with E. latifolia, he ob- 
serves the flowers are smaller than those of E. latifolia. I have not 
access to the “ Herbarium Normale,” which may prove that he included 
E. purpurata, Sm. in his E. media. 
Jarrow-leaved Lelleborine. 
Sun-Srecies I.—Epipactis latifolia. All. 
Prats MCCCCLXXX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab, CCCCLXXXVIII. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No, 173. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 333. 
E. latifolia, var. a, Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 428. 
E. Helleborine, var. viridans, Crantz. Reich. fil. 1.c. p. 143. 
Serapias latifolia, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 269. 
Leaves of the middle of the stem approximate; the lower ones 
broadly ovate or suborbicular-ovate; the upper ones ovate-lanceolate ; 
