CL. XX.] GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 341 



lines on the disk. Root creeping : stem more than a foot high : 



flowers large, white. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows 

 in mountainous woods : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 494. Eng. Fl. 

 vol. iv. p. 44. Serapias ensifolia. 1260, 



5. E.riibra. 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 creep- 

 ing : stem above a foot high : flowers large, rose- coloured, in a 

 loose spike. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in 

 woods : very rare. Gloucestershire, and Methven woods in Perth- 

 shire. 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 nu- 

 merous, 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-cor- 

 nered; 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. Lceselii. Two-leaved Bog-orchis. Leaves two, narrow, 

 elliptical ; stalk three-cornered ; lip inversely egg-shaped, chan- 

 nelled, entire, recurved, longer than the calyx. Bulb egg- 

 shaped, greenish : spike few-flowered : flowers pale-yellow. Pe- 

 rennial : 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. Cap- 

 sule oblong. Seeds numerous, extremely minute. Name from 

 corallion, 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 ramifica- 

 tion : 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 



