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under tall beach and EngUJJj elms, plentifully. The root con- 

 fifts of many thick bulbous fibres. The flalk is of the thick- 

 nefs of a large writing-quill, round and fmooth, from one 

 to three feet high. The leaves are perfoliate and alternate, fix 

 or feven in number, two inches broad in the middle, four inches 

 and a half long, and lanceolated, of a lively green. The flowers 

 are in a thin fpike of eight or nine inches long, in the larger 

 plants, pendulous, of a yellowifh-green, with a fpot of dufky 

 purple at the bottom of the lip. It flowers in Auguft. 



The Ladies Slipper (q), faid by Dr. Turner* to grow in a boggy 

 place in a field at Newton on the Moor, near Alnwick, is not now 

 obferved to grow there. 



j 54. Creeping Hellebore Orchis, or Satyridn, 'with Plantain-like leaves 

 (r). In mountainous woods. I met with a plant of it in Ram- 



Jhoiv- 



C. B. Pin. p. 186. Rej. Hift. ii. p. 1230. Syn. iii. p. 383. Tourn. Inft. 436. Hift. Oxon. 

 iii. p 486. cum Icone, t. u. f. i. monftrofa, ex Hort. AICHST. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 153. 

 Dill. GiiT. p. 131. Serapias bulbis fibrofis, ne&arii labio obtufo petalis breviore. Linn. Flo. 

 Suec. n. 734. Act. Upf. 1740. p. 21. Serapias multifolio, multifloro. Hort. Cliff, p. 429. 

 Royen. lugdb. p. 13. a. Helleborine floribus ex viridi & purpureo variis, labello acuminate, 

 foliis breviffimis. Hall. Helv. p. 275. 



(q) Pfeudo-damafonium. Cluf. Pann. 272. bona defcriptione. Elleborine recentiorum i. 

 Ejufd. Hift. p. 272. Calceolus MARIANUS. Dad. Pernpt. p. 180. f. I, 2. Tourn. Inft. 

 p. 437. Calceolus MARIJE. Hort. AICHST. Vern. Ord. viii. t. 6. f. i. bene. Raj. Syn. 

 iii. p. 385. Damafonii fpecies quibufdam f. Calceolus MAV.IJE. I. B. iii. p. 518. Hel- 

 leborine flore rotundo f. Calceolus. C. B, Pin. p. 187. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1232. Hift. Oxon. 

 iii. p. 480. t. ii. f. 14. Calceolus. Rupp.flo. Jen. p. 277. Hall. Helv. p. 276. Cy- 

 pripedium radicibus fibrofis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis caulinis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 735. Aft. 

 Upf. 1740. p. 24- Cypripedium foliis ovato-lanceolatis. Flo. Lapp. n. 138. Royen. lugdb, 



P- 13- 



* Turn. Hift. PI. 



(r) Orchis minor flofculis albis radice repente. Cam. Hort. p.m. Icon. xxxv. uptime. 

 L B. ii. p. 770. cumaliena Icone. Pfeudo-crchis. C. B. Pin. p. 84. Raj. Hift. p. 1226. 



Orchis 



