126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Herefordshire; Orme’s Head, Carnarvon; Settle, Yorkshire; Durness, 
Sutherland; Burram and other hills, co. Clare. I have seen specimens 
only from Settle and Orme’s Head. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, early 
Autumn, 
Stem slender, wiry, 6 inches to 2 feet high. Largest leaves 2 to 4 
inches long, narrower than those of E. latifolia, but in other respects 
similar. Bracts smaller, even the lower ones but rarely exceeding 
the flowers. Sepals little more than } inch long, incurved, with 
spreading tips as in E. latifolia; the terminal portion of the labellum 
broader than long, but with rugose bosses like those of E. media. The 
plant flowers about six weeks earlier than E. latifolia. 
I am indebted to Mr. John Tatham for fresh examples of the Settle 
ant. This has the flowers of a dull deep red. Miss Smith, of 
upeley, has favoured me with fresh specimens of the Orme’s Head 
plant: these were similar to the Settle plants, except that the stems 
were shorter and the flowers green only slightly tinged with dark red. 
As remarked under E, media, I am strongly inclined to think that 
E. atrorubens is the plant Fries had in view in his second Mantissa. 
The only point in his description which does not agree with E. atro- 
rubens is where he describes the leaves as ‘ squaliter acuminatus ;” 
whereas E. atrorubens generally, though not always, has them ab- 
ruptly acuminated at the very apex, though to a less extent than in 
E. latifolia. 
Oval-leaved Helleborine. 
SPECIES IL—EPIPACTIS PALUSTRIS. Crantz. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXXIITI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1551. 
FE. longifolia, “Schmidt, in Meyer Phys. Aufs. 1791, p. 25,” test. Reich. fil. 
Serapias longifolia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. vol. ii. p. 593. 
S. palustris, Lightf. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 270. 
Rootstock extensively creeping, producing elongated slender stolons. 
Flowers rather few. Bracts all shorter than the flowers. Labellum 
slightly exceeding the sepals, constricted between the base and the 
middle, the basal portion produced into triangular lobes at the sides, 
the apical portion transversely ovate, suborbicular-obtuse, not apiculate, 
strongly crenate on the margins, with faintly marked narrowly-linear 
basal bosses. Ovary slender while in flower, fusiform-cylindrical. 
In marshes and swampy meadows. [Rather rare. Generally dis- 
tributed in England. Rare in Scotland, where it extends on the east 
to Dalkeith, Edinburgh, and the south side of the county of Fife; but 
