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2 lateral inner ones shorter, erecto-connivent. Lip oblong, white, 

 nearly entire, waved at the margin, with a few purple blotches, de- 

 flexed. Column elongated. — This genus holds a middle place between 

 this section and the next. Mr. Brown considers the pollen-masses to 

 be truly pulverulent. Dr. Lindley asserts that although less waxy 

 than in the preceding genera, they are really so, and only show a 

 pulverulent structure when bruised among water. 







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) cully coJierhig (sectile). — Neotxe^. 



4. Epipactis Br. Helleborine. 



Lip free from the column^ much contracted or articulated in 

 the middle : lower lobe very concave, upper one entire at the 

 apex. Pollen farinaceous. — Name given to some kind of Ilelle' 

 bore by the Greeks, 



* Upper segment of the Up with two projecting tubercles or plates at 



its base above. Column short. Anther sessile. Ovary straight, on a 

 twisted stalk. 



1. E. latifolia Sw. (broad-leaved H.) ; leaves oblong or ovate 

 many-nerved, upper ones narrower, raceme elongated many- 

 flowered, lower bracteas longer than the flowers, upper lobe of 

 the lip broadly ovate or deltoid acute somewhat cordate at the 

 base broadest below the middle with 2 tubercles at the base as 

 long as or a little shorter than the sepals nearly quite entire. 

 a. leaves broadly ovate upper ones ovate-oblong, upper lobe of 

 the lip roundish broader than long shorter than the broadly 

 ovate sepals. Serapias -E. B. t. 269. — /3. leaves ovate-oblong, 

 upper ones lanceolate, upper lobe of the lip reniform broader 

 than long as long as the ovate acute sepals. E. ovalis Bab. : 



oU' I E. B. S. t. 2884. — y. leaves ovate-oblong, upper ones lanceo- 

 late, upper lobe of the lip triangular longer than broad shorter 



ji, J than the ovate-lanceolate sepals (bracteas mostly all longer 



than the flowers). E. purpurata Sm. : E. B. S. t. 2275. — S. 

 leaves ovate-oblong, upper ones lanceolate, upper lobe of the 

 hp triangular longer than broad as long as the lanceolate sepals. 

 E. media Fries : Bab. Man. 



laJ I Woods in mountainous countries, not unfrequent, — $. Giggles- 



ii I wick and other places on the sides of mountains near Settle, York- 



shire ; also in Herefordshire. — y. Woburn Abbey; Reigate, Sur- 

 rey; Crawley, Sussex. — S. Salop, Matlock; Abberly, Warwick- 

 shire. 1/., 7, 8. — Boot creeping, with long fibres. Stem 1—3 ft. 

 "igh; lower leaves varying much in breadth, the upper ones always 

 narrower. Flowers in a very long lax raceme, greenish-purple, varying 



