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The derivation of tlus genus is thus given : Iw), upon, and rraKrle, a pointed 

 elevation, from the anther being jilaced on the summit of the column. 



SPECIES I— EPIPACTIS HELLEBORINE. Cmntz. 

 Plates MCCCCLXXIX. MCCCCLXXX. MCCCCLXXXI. 



FelcL Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIII. p. 141. 



E. latlfolia. BoiitJi. Handk. Brit. Fl. ed. ii. p. 452. Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 428. 



Rootstock shortly creeping, producing buds from which new stems 

 are developed, but no elongate stolons. Flowers numerous. Lowest 

 bracts usually larger than the flowers. Labellum not exceeding the 

 sepals, constricted between the middle and the apex, the basal portion 

 not produced into lobes at the sides, the apical portion acute or api- 

 culate and recurved at the apex, entire or nearly entire on the margins, 

 with thick bosses converging towards the apex, and usually confluent. 

 Ovary thick in flower, fusiform- turbinate. 



Shb-Species I. — EpipactiS media. " Fries." Bah. 



Plate MCCCCLXXIX. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXXVI. Fig. 1, and 



CCCCLXXXVII. 

 Bah. Man. Brit. Bet. ed. vi. p. 333 (an Fries ?). 

 E. Helleborine, var. varians. Beich. fil. 1. c. p. 142. 

 E. viridiflora, " Hoffm." Boreau, Fl. du Centre de Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p 657. 



Leaves rather distant ; the lower ones oblong-oval ; the upper ones 

 lanceolate, gradually attenuated to the apex. Flowers in a rather 

 lax raceme, which is scarcely unilateral. Sepals or lateral petals 

 lanceolate, gradually attenuated to the apex, as long as the ovary 

 when in flower, widely spreading; labellum nearly as long as the 

 sepals ; its apical portion deltoid-triangular, acute, with the basal bosses 

 plicate-rugose. Flowers pale yellowish-green, or more or less tinged 

 with purple. 



Var. a, viridis. 



Plant green, not tinged with purple. 



Var. 3, purpurata. 



E. purpurata. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 41. /. Forhes in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2775. 



Plant more or less tinged with "purple lilac." (/. Forbes.) 



In woods. Rare. Near Reigate, Dorking, and Claygate, Surrey, and 



" Afi'more Forest " are the only places from which I have specimens ; 



but it is reported from numerous counties, from Sussex and Kent 



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