126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Herefordsliire ; Orme's Head, Carnarvon; Settle, Yorkshire; Dumess, 

 Sutherland ; Burram and other hills, co. Clare. I have seen specimens 

 only from Settle and Orme's Head. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, early- 

 Autumn. 



Stem slender, "wiry, 6 inches to 2 feet hip;h. Largest leaves 2 to 4 

 inches long, narrower than those of E. latifolia, but in other respects 

 similar. Bracts smaller, even the lower ones but I'arely exceeding 

 the flowers. Se])als little more than i inch long, incurved, with 

 spreading tips as in E. latifolia; the terminal portion of the lubellum 

 broader than long, but with rugose bosses like those of E. media. The 

 plant flowers aljout six Aveeks earlier than E. latifolia. 



I am indebted to Mr. John Tatham for fresh examples of the Settle 

 plant. This has the flowers of a dull deep red. Miss Smith, of 

 liugeley, has favoured me Avith fresh specimens of the Orme's Head 

 jjlant: these Avere similar to the Settle plants, except that the stems 

 were shorter and the flowers green only slightly tinged with dark red. 



As remarked under E. media, I am strongly inclined to tliink that 

 E. atrorubens is the plant Fries had in view in his second Mantissa. 

 The only point in his description which does not agree Avith E. atro- 

 rubens is Avhere he describes the leaves as " aqualiter acuminatus ;" 

 whereas E. atrorubens generally, though not ahvays, has them ab- 

 ruptly acuminated at the very apex, though to a less extent than in 

 E. latifolia. 



Oval-leaved Eellehorine. 



SPECIES II.-EPIPACTIS PALUSTRIS. Cranh. 



Plate MCCCCLXXXII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXXHI. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exaiec. No. 1551. 



E. longifolia, "Schmidt, in Meyer PHys. Aufs. 1791, p. 25," test. Reich, fil. 



Serapias longifolia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. vol. ii. p. 593. 



S. palustris, Light/. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 270. 



Rootstock extensively creeping, producing elongated slender stolons. 

 Flowers rather few. Bracts all shorter than the flowers. Labellum 

 slightly exceeding the sepals, constricted betAveen the base and the 

 middle, the basal portion produced into triangular lobes at the sides, 

 the apical portion transversely ovate, suborbicular-obtuse, not apiculate, 

 strongly crenate on the margins, with faintly marked narrowly-linear 

 basal bosses. Ovary slender while in flower, fusiform-cylindrical. 



In marshes and swampy meadows. Rather rare. Generally dis- 

 tributed in England. Rare in Scotland, where it extends on the east 

 to Dalkeith, Edinburgh, and the south side of the county of Fife; but 



