128 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
flowers. Sepals and lateral petals similar, elliptical-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, acute, purplish-rose ; labellum constricted between the base and 
the middle; the apical portion deltoid-ovate-acuminate, white with a 
rose-coloured border, and marked with numerous yellowish interrupted 
longitudinal crests; basal portion not swollen below, saccate, but 
without an evident spur at the base. Rachis and ovaries conspicuously 
glandular-puberulent. 
In woods and bushy places on chalky soil. Very rare. “ Quantock 
Hills, Somerset,” Rey. J. C. Collins, 1836. On a steep stony bank 
sloping to the south on Hampton Common, Mrs. Smith, of Barnam 
House, teste Smith, “ English Botany;” and Pitchcombe Wood, 
Gloucester, whence I have been favoured with fresh specimens by Mr. 
G. 8. Wintle, and with dried ones by Dr. St. Brody, gathered in 
1864-65. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock creeping, nearly perpendicular, slender, with numerous 
cylindrical radical fibres. Stem slender, wiry, striated, 9 to 18 inches 
high, sheathed at the base. Lowest leaves oval-oblong ; intermediate ones 
narrowly elliptical-lanceolate ; uppermost strapshaped-lanceolate. Spike 
3 to 6 inches long, lax. Lowest bracts exceeding the ovary, strap- 
shaped-acuminate. Flowers 3 to 15. Sepals 3 inch long, bright purplish- 
rose (magenta) ; labellum whitish, with the terminal segment acumi- 
nated into a point, the basal portion with two oblong-rhombic lateral 
lobes, and with the rudiment of a spur at the base. Pollen-masses 
slate-colour. 
Red Helleborine. 
French, Lpipactis rouge. German, Rothes Zymbelleraut. 
SPECIES IL—CEPHALANTHERA ENSIFOLIA. Bich. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXXITV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXX. 
C. Xiphophyllum, Reich. jil. l.c. p. 135. 
Epipactis ensifolia, Sw. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 44. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p.429. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 259. 
E. xiphophylla, “ Sw. Orchid. p. 65,” test. Si. 
Serapias ensifolia, “ Zinn.” Sm. Engl. Bot. ed, i. No. 494. 
S. Xiphophyllum, Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 404. 
Leaves of the middle of the stem lanceolate-elliptical or lanceolate- 
strapshaped, very acute. Bracts (except sometimes the lowest one) 
lanceolate-strapshaped or triangular, acute; the uppermost ones very 
minute, shorter than the ovary. Sepals elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, 
acute. Petals oblong-elliptical, obtuse, and, as well as the sepals, pure 
white; labellum constricted a little below the middle (i.e. between 
