212 M9. Epipactis. 21. ORCHIDE/E. VI. end. ph. 



anther marginal, placed behind, lieartsbape, blunt pointed; 

 pollen in oblong ovate masses, agglutinating near the tip ; 

 vesicles appearing 3 or 4 globular. — Rhizoma creeping; 

 fibres fleshy ; stem leafy ; leaves amplexicaul, 2-rowed, 

 ovate, ribbed; spike loose; Jlowers drooping, bracteate; 

 ovary ovate. 



1 . Epipactis latifolia. Broad-leafed helleborine. 

 Lower hracfece longer than the flowers ; Up pointed, 



shorter than the sepales ; leaves ovate. 



Helleborine latifolia moniana, Raii Sijn. 383, 1. 



Helleborine, Ger. em. 442, 1 . 



EUeborine flora viridante. Park. 218. 



Serapias Helleborine a, Lin. S. P. 1344. 



Serapias latifolia, Murray Syst. Veg. 811. 



Epipactis latifolia, Willd. S. P. 5, 83. 



Wild white hellebore. Cominon bastard hellebore. 



Shady woods ; perennial ; July and August. 

 Stem 2 feet high; Jlowers small, purplish. 



(3. atro-ruhens. Flowers deep red, late; stem very downy. 



Helleborine altera atro-rubente flora, Raii Syn, 313,2. 

 Elleborine flora atro-rubente, Park. 218, 



2. Epipactis palustris. Marsh helleborine. 

 Bractea shorter than the flowers ; lip crenatc, blunt, -as 



long as the sepales ; leaves lanceolate. 



Helleborine palustris ijostras, Raii Syn. 384, 6. 

 Serapias longifolia y, Lin. S. P. 1345. 

 Serapias latifolia palustris, Iluds. Fl.Ang. S93. 

 Serapias palustris. Scop. Cam, 2,204. 

 Epipactis palustris, Willd. S. P. 5, 84. 

 Marsh hellebore. 



Marshes ; perennial ; July and August. 

 Stem 12 in. high ; sepales variegated with purple ; 3 outer 

 green; 2 inner white. 



XVI. 150. CYPRIPEDIUM. Ladies-slipper, 



Ovary not twisted, pcdicell short ; perigonium spread 

 loosely and rather cross-like : lovver or odd sepales grown 

 together into one, placed under the lip, and more or less 

 split at the tip; Up spurless, blown out like a slipper; gy- 

 nostemium rather short, three-cut behind and above, with 

 the side divisions anther-bearing before below the tip, the 

 intermediate division very large, bent in, without any anther, 

 and therefore an imperfect anther or staminodium ; gyniz7/s 

 (or stigma) footstalked, rather peltate ; nearly deltoid, placed 

 between and above the anthers; clinandriitm and rosteUiim 0; 



