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on the west it has been reported only from the Isle of Skye, where 

 It was found by Lightfoot. Local and rather rare in Ireland, where 

 it is confined to the north and middle of the island. 



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

 Autumn. 



Stem 6 to 18 inches high, slender, wiry above. Lower leaves 2 to 

 C inches long, oval-oblong, i-ather blunt; the intermediate ones longer 

 and narrowly elliptical-lanceolate ; upjiermost leaves strapshaped- 

 lanceolate. Spike 3 to 6 inches long. Flowers horizontal or slightly 

 drooping, with much longer, more slender, and more puberulent 

 ovaries than those of any of the forms of E. Helleborine. Sei)als 

 about -J- inch long, lanceolate, greyish-green, striped. Petals rather 

 shorter than the sepals, white veined Avith purplish-red at the base ; 

 labellum wliite, marked with purplish-red strias and a few yellowish 

 dots. 



Marsh Helleborine. 



French, Spipactis des marais. German, Gemeine Sumpfwurz. 



GENUS AT//.— C EPHALANTHERA. Bkh. 



Perianth coloured ; segments all connivent; labellum turned down- 

 wards, saccate or very shortly spurred, concave towards the base, con- 

 stricted in the middle so as to have a terminal more or less pointed 

 ovate or transverse terminal recurved lobe without prominent bosses 

 at the base. Column elongate ; rostellum none. Anther shortly 

 stalked, moveable; pollen-masses clavate, not attached to a common 

 gland ; pollen mealy. 



Herbs with oval-elliptical or lanceolate sessile and amplexicaul 

 leave-;, the lowest ones reduced to sheaths, and large white or pink 

 suberect sessile flowers in lax spikes. 



This genus derives its name from KKpnXi'i, the bead, and antlicni, anther. 



SPECIES I.-CEPHALANTHERA RUBRA. Ekh. 



Plate MCCCCLXXXIII. 



Erich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIH. Tab. CCCCLXIX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3237. 



Epipactis rubra, Swartz; Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 45. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 259. 



Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 429. 

 Serapias rubra, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. p. 437. 



Leaves of the middle of stem elliptical-lanceolate, very acute. Bracts 

 Btrapshaped, acute, longer than the ovary, and about as long as the 



