CLASS XX. ORDER I. ] EPIPACTIS. 1123 
flowers. Bracteas ovate, taper pointed, thin, smooth. Flowers 
elevated on a footstalk, as long or longer than the bractea. Sepals 
ovate, concave, connivent, often tinged of a brownish colour. Petals 
smaller, included in the sepals. Lip dependent, much longer than 
the sepals, smooth, pale yellowish green, deeply cut into two linear 
lobes, entire at the base, and in the disk is a glandular furrow. 
Column two lipped, the upper lip crested, and covering the anthers. 
Capsules roundish, ovate, ribbed. 
Habitat—W oods and moist pastures ; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
2. L. corda'ta, Br. (Fig. 1347.) Heart-leaved Twayblade. Stem 
with two opposite cordate leaves; lip with two awl-shaped lobes, and 
toothed at the base on each side. 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 39-—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 
p. 318.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 258.—Ophrys, Linn.—English Botany, 
t. 358. 
foot long simple fibres. Stem erect, about four inches high, 
slender, delicate, smooth, erect, enveloped at the base with membra- 
nous sheaths, and bearing a little below the middle a pair of opposite 
smooth heart-shaped leaves, of a pale green, three ribbed. Jnflo- 
rescence a. terminal lax spike of few pale yellowish green small flowers, 
sometimes tinged with brown. Sepals and petals linear oblong, 
somewhat connivent. Zip reflexed, cut into two slender awl-shaped 
spreading lobes, and toothed on each side at the base. Column 
without a crest behind the anther. Capsule globose, ribbed, elevated 
on a short stalk. 
Habiiat.—Boggy places in mountainous districts in the North of 
England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
GENUS XI. EPIPAC’TIS.—Brown. Helleborine. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHip’E®. Juss. 
Gen. Coan. Sepals and petals spreading, or converging, more or 
less coloured, Zip embracing the column, inflated at the base, 
entire, or three lobed, the middle lobe large, and jointed to the 
others. Column plane, convex, with two teeth at the apex. 
Pollen masses acuminate. Anthers two celled—Name given to 
some kind of Hellebore by the Greeks. 
1. #. latifolia, Swartz. (Fig. 1348.) Broad-leaved Helleborine. 
Leaves broadly ovate, amplexicaul ; bractea lanceolate, the lower ones 
much longer than the drooping flowers; lip roundish, acuminated at 
the point, shorter than the perianth ; ovarium downy. 
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