CL. XX.] GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 341 



disk. Root creeping : stem more than a foot high : flowers lan*e, 



white. Perennial: flowers in May and June: grows in mountainous 

 woods : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 494. Eng. F/. vol. iv. p. 44. Se- 

 rapias ensijolia. 1260. 



5. E. rubra. Purple Helleborine. Leaves lance-shaped ; bracteas 

 longer than the germen ; flowers sessile, erect; lip tapering to a point, 



with elevated undulating lines on the disk. Root creeping: stem 



above a foot high : flowers large, rose-coloured, in a loose spike. Peren- 

 nial: flowers in May and June : grows in woods : very rare. Gloucester- 

 shire, and Methven woods in Perthshire. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 437. Eng. 

 Fl. vol.iv. p. 45. Serapias rubra. 1261. 



9. MALA'XIS. BOG-ORCHIS. 



Calyx superior, of three oblong, spreading, permanent leaves. 

 Petals two, spreading, oblong, smaller than the calyx. Nectary 

 spurless, variously shaped. Anther terminal, hemispherical, deci- 

 duous, of two close cells. Germen inversely egg-shaped, angular. 

 Style convex at the back, flat or concave in front ; stigma close 

 beneath the anther in front. Capsule oblong, ribbed. Seeds nume- 

 rous, minute. Name from malacis, soft. 416. 



1 . M. paludosa. Least Bog-orchis. Marsh Tway-blade. Leaves about 

 four, egg-shaped, rough at the extremity ; stalk five-cornered ; lip entire, 

 concave, acute, half the length of the calyx. Roots bulbous, egg- 

 shaped : stem from three to five inches high : spike long, slender, of 

 small greenish flowers. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in spongy 

 bogs : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 72. Eng. Fl.vol. iv. p. 47. 



1262. 



2. M. Lxselii. Two-leaved Bog-orchis. Leaves two, narrow, ellip- 

 tical ; stalk three-cornered; lip inversely egg-shaped, channelled, entire, 



recurved, longer than the calyx. Bulb egg-shaped, greenish : spike 



few-flowered: flowers pale-yellow. Perennial: flowers in July : grows 

 in sandy bogs, in the south of England : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 47. 

 Eng. FL vol. iv. p. 48. Ophrys Lceselii. 1263. 



10. CORALLORHI'ZA. CORAL-ROOT. 



Calyx superior, of three lance-shaped, spreading, permanent 

 leaves. Petals two, oblong, ascending, nearly as long as the calyx. 

 Nectary with a spur, the lip three-lobed, rather shorter than the 

 calyx. Anther terminal, hemispherical, two-celled. Germen ob- 

 long. Style incurved, shorter than the petals, convex behind, 

 channelled before ; stigma obsolete, beneath the anther. Capsule 

 oblong. Seeds numerous, extremely minute. Name from coral, 

 lion, coral, and rhiza, a root. 417. 



1. C. inndta. Spurless Coral-root. Spur of the nectary short, not 



distinct from the lip. Root of numerous compound branches, of a 



pale-brown colour, resembling coral in its mode of ramification : no 

 leaves: stalk about five inches high: spike of from five to ten pale- 

 yellowish flowers. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in 

 marshy places in Scotland : rare. Near the head of Little Loch 



