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LXXXIX. OKCIIIDACE^, 



iEpip^ctis^ 



much In intensity, sometimes nearly green, sometimes all dark purple 

 We can perceive no essential difference in these varieties, hetwuen 

 "W'hich there are intermediate forms : the shape and size of the Un 

 although variable, as well as its structure, distinguish this species from 

 the next, which are the only two European ones of this section we are 

 able to recognise, 



2. 'Ei. palastris Sw. (Marsh H.)\ leaves lanceolate, bracteas 

 mostly shorter than the slightly drooping flowers, upper lobe 

 of tlie lip roundish-oval or obovate broadest at or above the 

 middle undulate-crenate very obtuse or retuse with two crests 

 at the base longer than the sepals. Serapias Scop, : JE, B. t. 

 270. S. longifolia Z. . 



Moist and marshy places, especially in the vicinity of chalk. i(, 

 7. — Stem 1 foot high, purplish above. Outer sepals purple-frreen 

 inner ones and lip white, with rose-coloured streaks at the base. 



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Upper lobe of the lip iiahedj recurved. Column elongated. Anther 

 on a short thick stalk. Ovary sessile, twisted, Cephalanthera Rich, 



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3. E. grandijiora Sm. (large tvhite H.) ; leaves ovate-lanccL 

 late sessile, bracteas longer than the glabrous ovary, sepals 

 erect obtuse, upper lobe of the lip very blunt or rounded 

 shorter than the rest of the perianth. E. pallens AS'^o. Serapias 

 ■X. : JS, B. t. 271. Cephalanthera Bah. 



Woods and thickets, chiefly in a chalky soil. 



a foot or more high. 



%. 5,6, 



Stem 



Flowers remote, racemose, quite erect; sepals 

 all nearly equal, large, oblong-ovate, obtuse, cream-coloured, concave, 

 including the small lip which is also white, but yellowish within. 

 Dr. Lindley ascribes to this and the following species a truly terminal 

 anther, and therefore places them in the group Arethiisccc, 



4. E. ensifolia Sw. (narrow -leaved white H,); leaves lanceo- 

 late much acuminate subdistichous, bracteas subulate much 

 shorter than the glabrous ovary, sepals erect, outer ones sub- 

 acuminate inner acute, upper lobe of the lip roundish somcAvhat 

 obtuse or sliglitly pointed shorter than the rest of the perianth. 

 Serapias L. : E, B. t 494. Cephalanthera Rich. 



' Mountainous woods, but not general. 11. 5, 6. — T^^ou^m approxi- 

 mate, subspicate, more or less diverging, pure white. 



5. E. rubra Sw. (purple H.) ; leaves lanceolate, bracteas 

 longer than the downy gerinen, perianth spreading, upper lobe 

 of the hp acuminate as long as the inner sepals marked with 

 raised wavy lines. Serapias L. : E. B. t. 437. Cephalanthera 

 Rich. 



Very rare In mountainous woods, in England. Bank sloping to the 

 south on Hampton Common. Gloucestershire. 2/.. 6 7.— Sepals 

 purplish-red. Lip almost white. 'V 



