72 NOTES ON ABBOT’S HERBARIUM. 
be zvUttg on the — of the E. B. 8. plant, and osteoma -_ 
on Mr. Oxende I do not venture to qu 
Sates cn ; Topoerphical Botany,’ as_ Mr. iis n pa 
referred to E. media, Bab., a most distinct plant as a synon 
of his violacea. There is an “excellent Cand of E. violacea 
_ sand vad edition of Boreau’s ‘Flore du Centre,’* but I 
refer to any very s age sdeisheiey aston of it in any 
British. sot although the characters of the other two species 
are sufficiently clearly given in the ‘ Man ual.’ Dr. Boswell indeed 
has observed that “‘ specimens of F. violacea, Durand-Duquesnay, 
from Lisieux, agree well with EH. purpurata, Sm.” I presume the 
EK §. plant, and not that of Smith is intended), ‘‘ but the 
French plant is said to have a thickened rhizome, producing tufts 
tems, which I cannot verify from my specimens, which are 
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peparae branch of the Srectans " (Syme, E. B. vol. ix., p. 124); 
and again, just above, ‘‘ The Reigate anid Gasca vlnake are the 
only ones I have seen in a living state. These are not at all 
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generally a little shorter.’’ Mr. Watson, however, has 
different — and remarks that ‘‘ Dr. Boswell Syme is under 
some in recording that the Claygate plants of EH’. media ‘ are 
not at all tuanee with purple.’ On a label with a specimen dried 
wrote “Whole plant with a lilac purple bloom over the 
en;’ and indeed it was a purple tint which first drew my 
cosa a ae Fo (Comp. Cyb. Brit. 577). But our 
plant w n to the soa liek botanists. In the herbarium of 
Buddle shes than 124, fol. 48), are two — specimens 
of E. violacea, without locality, labelled ‘* An Helleborine montana 
- angustifolia purpurascens, C. B. 187.” The original plant of 
Bauhin, and that of Ray’s ‘ Historia,’ was regione the Cephal- 
anthera to which it has usually been assigned; but it is far from 
Ghnechebls that Plukenet’s Irish specimen (Alm. p. 182) was the 
same as wise s. Hudson, in the first edition of his ‘ Flora,’ 
p. 842, quotes Bauhin’s synonym for his Serapias longifolia 9. which 
he lo co “* circa es et Ingleton in comitatu Eboracensi.” 
7 eR, uche épaisse Se des touffes de tiges 
sociétaires - "2 3 A 7 décim. psa cee . sans angles ni stries, excepté au 
sommet, robustes, couvertes surtout dans le haut d'une pubescence _papilleuse, 
pulvérulente brillante ; gaines des feuilles inférieur 
feuilles lancéolées aigués, blab _plus courtes que te entre- oo passan 
pédicelle tordu plus court ee ‘ovaire ; ovaire turbiné 4 6 fortes nervures ; rabee 
appendice cordiforme acuminé, un crénelé, recourbé a la pointe, offrant 4 sa 
base verdatre des gibbosités pisses pie oma blane sur les bords d’abord, puis 
rose et enfin brun. Toute la plante est d’un rouge violacé, A la fin bronzée, 
— io % —Boreau, vol. ii. pp. 651, 652. 
e myself gathered undoubted specimens of E. media, Bab., coe were 
Pet kg of a bright lilac tint, in one instance varied with a primrose c 
