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summit of the ovary. Whole plant olive; the flowers paler; labellum 
whitish, spotted with purplish raised spots. 
Common Coral Root. 
French, Coralline de Haller. German, Hingewachsene Korallenwurz. 
Tre 1V.—_MALAXIDE/. 
Anther terminal, free, resembling a lid, persistent or deciduous ; 
pollen-masses not stalked, composed of waxy cohering granules. 
GENUS XVI—LIPARIS. Rich. 
Perianth subherbacecous; segments spreading, all (except the la- 
bellum) similar; labellum uppermost, as long as and much broader 
than the other segments, flat, entire, not spurred at the base. Column 
long, semicylindrical, inflexed. Anther terminal, lidlike, deciduous, 
terminated by a membranous appendage; pollen-masses cohering in 
pairs, in one row, attached in pairs to two glands; pollen waxy. 
Herbs growing in wet places, with the base of the stem swollen 
and surrounded by sheaths, the new bulb formed alongside of the old 
one, producing 2 root-leaves and a short scape bearing a raceme of 
small greenish-yellow or purplish flowers, remarkable for having the 
lip upwards; all the preceding genera (except Epipogum) having 
either the ovary or the stalk of the flower twisted so as to bring the 
labellum downwards. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek word Nerapéc, greasy, from the 
appearance of the leaves. 
SPECIES I—LIPARIS LOESELII. Rich. 
Prare MCCCCLXXXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XUI. Tab. CCCCXCII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3238. 
Sturmia Léselii, Reich. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 335. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 
et Helv. ii. 803. Tteich. fil. l.c. p. 161. 
Malaxis Liselii, Sw. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 48. 
Ophrys Léselii, Linn. Sin. Eng. Bot. No. 47. 
Leaves 2, oblong-elliptical, keeled. Stem leafless, triangular, 
Sepals lanceolate-strapshaped; the petals narrower; labellum oblong- 
obovate, mucronate, shorter than the sepals, yellowish-green. 
In spongy bogs. are, and now nearly extinct from the drainage 
of the fens. Said to have been found at Ham Ponds, near Sandwich, 
