42 GYNANDRIA—MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 



as the flowers. Lip shorter than the calyx, entire. Ger- 

 ~men downy. 



In shady woods. 



Parasitical on the stump of a maple or hazle, in a wood near the 

 Noris farm, at Leigh, Worcestershire, in 1807. Rev. Dr. Abbot. 



Perennial. June. 



" Root certainly parasitical. Whole plant, when fresh, glowing 

 with a beautiful red lilac colour ;" changed in drying to a 

 tawny, not dark or black, brown, which it has since retained un- 

 altered. Stem about a foot high, round, finely downy, clothed 

 with alternate, sessile, many-ribbed, flat, not plaited, leaves, 

 about 2 inches long, their ribs and margins minutely rough ; 

 the lower ones ovate-lanceolate ; upper linear-lanceolate as 

 they approach ihejlowers. Cluster a little drooping, at least be- 

 fore the flowers expand, cylindrical, dense. Bracteas solitaiy 

 under each partial stalk, nearly erect, linear, acute, straight, 

 long and narrow, being more than twice the length of the un- 

 expanded Jloivers. The latter are numerous, crowded, mostly 

 full-grown, but not yet expanded. On immersion in boiling 

 water, they prove to have all the characters of an Epipactis, with 

 a Up like the foregoing species, quite entire at the margin, and 

 somewhat pointed. The calyx is externally downy, as well as 

 the germeii. 



Whether my late friend, to whom I am obliged for my only speci- 

 men, found any more, I cannot tell, but I hope this account 

 may lead to a further discovery of so curious and interesting a 

 plant, which cannot be referred to any known species. 



3. E. jialustris. Marsh Helleborine. 



Leaves lanceolate, clasping the stem. Flowers drooping. 

 Lip rounded, obtuse, crenate, as long as the petals, with 

 a notched protubei'ance on the disk. 



E. palustris. Sw.Orch.64. TVilld.Sp.Pl.v. 4. 84. Br. as above, 202. 



Comp. erf. 4. 144. Hook. Scot. 254. Lo?id. t. 89. 

 E. n. 1296. Hall Hist. v. 2. 154. t. 39. 

 E. n. 5. Hall, in Act. Helvet. v.4.\\\. 

 ■ Serapias palustris. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 2Q4. Fl.Br.944. Engl. Bat. 



V.4. t.270. Light/. 527. Curt. Cat. n. 108. 

 S. longifolia. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. \2. v. 2. 593. Ehrh. Phyt. 47 . 



Purt. ?;.2.429. 

 S. longifolia /3, y. Linn. Sp. PI. 1345. 

 Helleborine. Fl Dan. t. 267. 

 H. angustifolia palustris, sive pratensis. Bauh.Pin. 187. Moris. 



V. 3. 487. sect. 12. <. 11./. 7. 

 H. palustris nostras. Raii Syn. 384. 



