GYNANDRTA— MONANDRIA. Epipactis, 41 



Helleborine. Ger. Em. 442./. Dod.Pempt.3S4.f. Lob.Ic.3\2f. 

 H. latifolia montana. Rail Syn. 383. Bauh. Pin. 186. 

 |3. H. altera, atro rubente flore. Rail Syn. 383. Herb. Buddie. 

 ■ Bauh. Pin. 186. 



In shady mountainous woods and thickets. 



/3. On the sides of mountains near Malham, Settle, and other 

 places in the north. Ray, Mr. Woodward, &; Mr. D. Turner. At 

 the bottom of the scar of Barrowfield wood, near Kendall. Mr. 

 Croice. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root moderately creeping, with simple, downy radicles. Stevis 

 several, about 2 feet high, round, copiously leafy ; sheathed at 

 the base ; most downy upwards. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, 

 bright green, smooth, ribbed and plaited like those of a Veratrum ; 

 various in breadth ; sheathing at the base; the upper ones gra- 

 dually smaller and more lanceolate ; all thin, rather rigid, not 

 at all fleshy. Cluster erect, downy, of n:any alternate droop- 

 m^ flowers, on short partial stalks, with a linear-lanceolate 

 bractea to each, of which 3 or 4 of the lowermost only reach be- 

 yond the flower, the rest being shorter. Germen obovate, downy. 

 Cat. and pet. ovate, acute, nearly equal in size and colour, be- 

 ing all green, more or less tinged with brown or dull purple. 

 Nect. shorter than either, its terminal lobe heart-shaped with a 

 small acute point ; the margin entire, a little wavy, purplish ; 

 disk tumid, smooth, dull red, or tawny. Anth. strictly terminal, 

 broadly elliptical, deflexed, fixed, with 2 close elliptic-oblong 

 cells, which deposit their simple yellow pollen-masses on the 

 upper edge of the large, angular, prominent stig^na. 



jS, preserved in Buddie's herbarium, is more downy, with later 

 powers, of a darker red in every part. 



The Jlowers in Dr. Hooker's plate are of a light purple hue, dif- 

 ferent from any I have seen ; their Up somewhat crenate, and 

 the germen smooth. A specimen much like this figure, but in 

 which the lip is perfectly entire, was sent me from Worcester- 

 shire many years ago, as a new species. The reputed varieties 

 of E. latifolia perhaps require more scientific examination than 

 they have hitherto received. Ehrhart's Serapias parvif'olia, 

 Herb. 120, afterwards, as it seems, called by himself, to no pur- 

 pose, microphtjlla, Beitr. v. 4. 42, in which change he is followed 

 by Swartz, Willdenow and Hoftmann, may possibly be our /3. 

 Yet this appears, by my Swiss and Italian specimens, very di- 

 stinct from the common E. latifolia. I have never met with it 

 it Britain. 



2. E. purpurata. Purple-leaved Helleborine. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Bracteas linear, all twice as long 



