216 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



E. atrorubens Schultes. Dark Red Epipactis. A variable species, 

 smaller in all its parts than the next ; stem slender, i-i^ ft. high, lower leaves 

 ovate-acute, i-2 in. long, tip of lip broader than long, rounded, obscurely 

 cuspidate. Flowers very dark red or purplish-brown (pale purple at S. 

 Dalmazzo di Tenda !) in a long, one-sided raceme. 



Woods and dry, sunny slopes, rare, chiefly in the lower mountains. June- 

 July. Chateaudouble, St. Martin Vesubie, San Dalmazzo, etc. 



E. latifolia Su>. = E. Helleborine Crantz (1769). Broad Helleborine. 

 Root-stock short, with thick fibres. Stem robust, 1-2^ ft. high. Lower leaves 

 oval, strongly ribbed, upper leaves lanceolate. Flowers pendulous, in a long 

 one-sided raceme, varying from green to dull purple in colour. Sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate. Lip rather small. Bracts longer than the flowers. A very variable 

 species. 



Wooded hills, fairly common. May-July. 



SERAPIAS L. 



S. cordigera L. (Plate XXIX). Tubers usually sessile. Stem erect, 

 8-12 in., spotted at the base with narrow red spots. Leaves linear-lanceolate. 

 Bracts often longer than the flowers. Middle lobe of the lip longer than the 

 sepals, cordate-acuminate, usually dark brownish-red, hairy, and with 2 divergent 

 callosities or ridges at the base. Pollen masses dark green. 



Sandy places and wooded slopes on the littoral. April-May. 



The colour of the flowers varies considerably ; we have seen them from 

 chocolate to wine colour, and also a few specimens from near Cavalaire in 1907 

 and 1913 were greenish-white, which form is exceedingly rare, and according 

 to Mr. Rolfe of Kew agrees with S. cordigera, )8. f lor i bus flavescent ibus 

 Tineo, " Fl. Sicula," ii. pt. 2, p. 552 (1844), only hitherto recorded from Sicily. 



S. neglecta Not. One of the 2 tubers stalked. Stems unspotted. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate. Flowers few, usually dark flesh coloured, the lip 

 varying much, either flesh coloured, rosy pink, or yellowish. Lip longer than 

 sepals, with 2 distinct nearly parallel ridges, the tongue broadly ovate-acuminate, 

 with 3 rather indistinct little lobes at the apex ; lateral lobes projecting beyond 

 the sepals. 



Sandy woods and grassy places. April-May. This and S. cordigera are 

 particularly common in the Esterel and the Maures. 



S. longlpetala Poll. = S. pseudo-cordigera Moricaud (Plate XXIX). 

 Tubers 2, usually quite sessile. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, not spotted. 

 Stem i ft. or more high. Flowers 6-10, in a lax spike, deep red. Lip much 

 longer than the bracts, hairy, with middle lobe lanceolate and bent back 

 towards the stem, and with 2 distinct nearly parallel ridges. Pollen masses 

 green, upper sepals connate. Regarded by Moggridge as a doubtful species. 



Dry, sandy places, fields, etc. April-June. 



S. lingua L. Tubers 2 or 3, one stalked. Stem erect, 6-10 in. high. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate ; both free from spots. Bracts shorter than or equal 

 to the flowers, which are few and small. Lip flesh-colour, pink, or yellowish, 

 middle lobe nearly twice as long as the sepals, the united ridges forming one 

 shining blackish callosity at the base. Pollen masses yellow or greenish-yellow. 



Meadows and sandy swards. April-June. Usually common on the littoral, 

 in the Esterel, etc. 



S. Olbia Verguin in " Bull. Soc. Bot. de France " (1907), p. 597. This is a 

 rare species, intermediate between the last and the next and found near the sea 

 in sandy places on the Isthmus of Giens, Lavandou, les Vieux Salins below 

 Hyeres, and near La Seyne. April-June. Olbia was the Roman Hyeres. 



S. OCCUltata Gay = S. parviflora Parl. A small flowered slender species 

 with 2 oval subsessile tubers. Leaves lanceolate, not spotted. Flowers 

 reddish, 3-8 in a long spike with bracts as long as the flowers. Lip about as 

 long as the " sepals " and with 2 parallel ridges, middle lobe very small, 



