128 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



flowers. Sepals and lateral petals similar, elliptical-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, acute, purplish-rose ; labellum constricted between the base and 

 the middle; the apical portion deltoid-ovate-acuminate, white with a 

 rose-coloured border, and marked mtli numerous yellowish interrupted 

 lonp;itudinal crests; basal portion not swollen below, saccate, but 

 without an evident spur at the base. Rachis and ovaries conspicuously 

 glandular-puberulent. 



In woods and bushy places on chalky soil. Very rare. " Quantock 

 Hills, Somerset," Rev. J. C. Collins, 1836. On a steep stony bank 

 sloping to the south on Hampton Common, Mrs. Smith, of Barnam 

 House, teste Smith, " English Botany ; " and Pitchcombe Wood, 

 Gloucester, whence I have been favoured with fresh specimens by Mr. 

 G. S. Wintle, and with dried ones by Dr. St. Brody, gathered in 



1864-65. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock creeping, nearly perpendicular, slender, Avith numerous 

 cylindrical radical fibres. Stem slender, wirj', striated, 9 to 18 inches 

 high, sheathed at tlie base. Lowest leaves oval-oblong ; intermediate ones 

 narrowly elliptical-lanceolate ; uppermost strapshaped-lanceolate. Spike 

 3 to 6 inches long, lax. Lowest bi-acts exceeding tlie ovary, strap- 

 shaped-acuminate. Flowers 3 to 1 5. Sepals f nich long, bright purplish- 

 rose (magenta) ; labellum whitish, with the terminal segment acumi- 

 nated into a point, the basal portion with two oblong-rhombic lateral 

 lobes, and with the rudiment of a spur at the base. Pollen-masses 

 slate-colour. 



Red Hellehorine. 



French, £pi'padis rouge. German, Eotlies ZijmhelJcrmd. 



SPECIES II.-CEPHALANTHERA ENSIPOLIA. Rich. 



Plate MCCCCLXXXIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XHI. Tab. CCCGLXX. 



C. Xiphopliyllum, Eeich. fil. I.e. p. 135. 



Epipactis ensifolia, Sw. Sm. Eng. PL Vol. IV. p. 44. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 429. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 259. 

 E. xipliophylla, " Sxk. Orchid, p. 65," test. Sm. 

 Serapias ensifolia, " Linn." Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 494. 

 S. Xiphophyllum, Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 404. 



Leaves of the middle of the stem lanceolate-elliptical or lanceolate- 

 strapshaped, very acute. Bracts (except sometimes the lowest one) 

 lanceolate-strapshaped or triangular, acute ; the uppermost ones very 

 minute, shorter than the ovary. Sepals elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 acute. Petals oblong-elliptical, obtuse, and, as well as the sepals, pure 

 Avhite; labellum constricted a little below the middle (i.e. between 



