' ■ GY^;ANDRIA DIANDRIA. fjil 



marginal appendages: the lip is heart- fiiaped, 

 the ^n^ acute and deflexed, and commonly of a 

 whitifli, or a pale red colour, but ibmetimes 

 this and the v/hole f.ower is of a dark red, or 

 blood colour. The capfule is obtufely triangu- 

 lar, has three valves and one cell. 



^ahjiris 2. SERAPIAS bulbis fibrofis, foliis enfiformibus, 

 fefTilibus, floribus pendulis, nedarii labio ob- 

 tufoj fubferrato, petalis longiore. 



S. longifolia Lin. Sy/}. 7iat. 5^3. S. palujlris. Seep, 

 FL Cam. 1129. H^lkborine palujlris nqjlras. Rail 

 Syn. p. 384 n. 9. {Ri-vin, t. 3. Haller.hiji. 1296* 

 t. 39. bona. Oed. Dan. L 267. opt.) 



Marfh Helleborine. Anglis, 



In rough boggy paiiures and marfhes, but not 

 common. We obJerv'd it in fome bogs near 

 Thmtulm caftle, in the ifle of i:>kye. %. VII. 



The flowers grow about fifteen or twenty in a loofe 

 fpike. The germen is viliofe, and of a dark red 

 or purpliih colour. The three exterior petah 

 are green mix'd with red, and flightly pubefcenr. 

 The lateral ones are white with a red blufh : the 

 lip hangs down out of the flower, and is heart- 

 fhap'd, obtufe, white, flightly ferrated, and plait- 

 ed on the margins, and often emarginated : the 

 7ie5farium is marked with red lines and yellow 

 tuberculous fpots. This is enough to diftin- 

 guifh it from the preceding, and the whole ha- 

 bit of the plant declares it to be a different 

 fpecies. 



SERAPIAS 



