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the middle and the apex); the apical portion transversely oval-deltoid, 
obtuse, white with a yellow spot, and marked with numerous yel- 
lowish interrupted longitudinal crests; the basal portion not swollen 
below and subsaccate, but without any spur at the base. Rachis 
and ovaries indistinctly glandular-pubescent or subglabrous. 
In woods. Locally distributed over the greater part of Britain from 
Hampshire and Sussex, north to Fife and Perth and Argyleshire. 
Very rare in Ireland, where it occurs in the south-west and in the 
north. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock creeping, with wiry fibres. Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high. 
Sheaths at the base of the stem loose at the apex. Lowest leaves 
oval or oblong-oval, the intermediate ones the largest, 3 to 8 inches 
long ; the upper ones smaller. Spike 3 to 5 inches long, 5- to 12- 
flowered. Bracts generally abruptly smaller than the uppermost leaves 
and shorter than the ovary, but sometimes one or two of the lowest ones 
are leaflike and conspicuously exceed the ovary or even the flowers. 
Flowers ? inch long, about equal to the ovary, narrowed towards the 
base. Sepals longer than the petals, decidedly acuminate and acute, 
while the petals are rounded at the apex. Pullen-masses white. 
Leaves deep green, rather thin and dry in texture. 
Long-leaved Helleborine. 
French, Epipactis blane de neige. German, Schwertblittriges Zymbelkraut. 
SPECIES 11.—CEPHALANTHERA GRANDIFLORA. Bab. 
Prare MCCCCLXXXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XII. Tab. CCCCLXXI. and CCCCLXXII. Fig. 1. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsiec. No. 2236. 
C. Lonchophyllum, Feich. fil. 1. c. in Tab. 
C. pallens, Reich. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed.ii. p.800. Fries, Summ. Veg. 
Scand. p. 62. Hartm. Skand. FI. ed. ix. p. 192. 
Epipactis grandiflora, Sm. Sin. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p.43. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. 
ed. vili. p. 429. 
E. pallens, Willd. Spec. Pl. Vol. IV. p. 85. 
Serapias grandiflora, Lightf. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 271. 
8. Lonchophyllum, Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 405. 
Leaves of the middle of the stem elliptical or ovate-elliptical, acute. 
Bracts, or at least the lower ones, foliaceous, lanceolate-strapshaped, 
much longer than the flowers; uppermost ones much smaller, and 
about as long as the ovary. Sepals oval-oblong, scarcely acuminate, 
subobtuse. Petals oblong-elliptical, obtuse, and, as well as the sepals, 
cream-white; labellum constricted about the middle; the apical portion 
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