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on the west it has been reported only from the Isle of Skye, where 
it was found by Lightfoot. Local and rather rare in Ireland, where 
it is confined to the north and middle of the island. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, early 
Autumn. 
Stem 6 to 18 inches high, slender, wiry above. Lower leaves 2 to 
6 inches long, oval-oblong, rather blunt; the intermediate ones longer 
and narrowly elliptical-lanceolate ; uppermost leaves strapshaped- 
lanceolate. Spike 3 to 6 inches long. Flowers horizontal or slightly 
drooping, with much longer, more slender, and more puberulent 
ovaries than those of any of the forms of E. Helleborine. Sepals 
about } inch long, lanceolate, greyish-green, striped. Petals rather 
shorter than the sepals, white veined with purplish-red at the base ; 
labellum white, marked with purplish-red striz and a few yellowish 
dots. 
Marsh Helleborine. 
French, Lpipactis des marais. German, Gemeine Sumpfwurz. 
GENUS XUZI—CKPHALANTHERA. Rich. 
Perianth coloured ; segments all connivent; labellum turned down- 
wards, saccate or very shortly spurred, concave towards the base, con- 
stricted in the middle so as to have a terminal more or less pointed 
ovate or transverse terminal recurved lobe without prominent bosses 
at the base. Column elongate; rostellum none. Anther shortly 
stalked, moveable; pollen-masses clavate, not attached to a common 
gland ; pollen mealy. 
Herbs with oval-elliptical or lanceolate sessile and amplexicaul 
leaves, the lowest ones reduced to sheaths, and large white or pink 
suberect sessile flowers in lax spikes. 
This genus derives its name from xegady, the head, and anthera, anther. 
SPECIES I-CEPHALANTHERA RUBRA. Rich. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXXITI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. CCCCLXIX. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3237. 
Epipactis rubra, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 45. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 259. Hook. 
& Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 429. 
Serapias rubra, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 437. 
Leaves of the middle of stem elliptical-lanceolate, very acute. Bracts 
strapshaped, acute, longer than the ovary, and about as long as the 
