G^NANDRIA MONANDRIA Epipactis. 259 



dry, scaly.. Pjwt fixed on one side only. Stem brittle, twelve 

 to fifteen inches, thickest at the base. Spike cylindrical. Small 

 turned up fibres of the root somewhat resemble a bird's-nest. 

 *** ^4nther terminal, fibred. 



EPIPACTIS. Helleborine. 



E. latifolia. Broad-leaved H. Leaves egg-shaped, 

 clasping the stem. Lower bracteas longer than the 

 drooping flowers. Lip shorter than the calyx, entire, 

 with a minute point. Germen downy. H. L. 102. 

 Serapias latifoha. E. B. 269. Helleborine. G. E. 

 442. 



Shady woods, thickets.** North-Leigh. Stokenchurch Woods. Sb. 

 Beech Woods, between Fawley Court, Bixbrand, and Henley, 

 May 23rd, 1831. Bx. (Bagley Wood. B.r.) 



Per. July. 



Root creeping horizontally. Stem simple, erect, nearly two feet, 

 Ls. many, alternate, all the leaves strongly nerved, thin, some- 

 what stiff. Spike erect, many flowered. Fl. on short stalks, 

 brownish-green, or dark-purple. Cal. and pet. egg-shaped, 

 green, tinged with purple. Smell of the flower faint, aromatic. 

 Ls. and floral-Is. gradually narrower, as they are placed higher 

 on the stem. Nect. margin purplish, disk dull red, or tawny. 



E. palustris. Marsh H. Leaves spear-shaped, clasping 

 the stem. Flowers slightly drooping. Lip rounded, 

 blunt, notched, as long as the petals, with a notched 

 protuberance on the disk. H. L. 89. Serapias palus- 

 tris. E. B. 270. S. longifolia. Sb. 14. 



Watery places, swampjy vieadoivs, especially on chalk or gravel. Sm.* 

 North side of Shotover Hill. Bogs near Stow Wood. Combe. 

 Sh. Bogs under Bullingdon Green. Bx. Between the old 

 and new road, going to Ensham. Bx. 



Per. July. 



Root creeping. Stem erect, simple, twelve to eighteen inches. Ls. 

 lower ones, inclining to egg-shaped, upper, spear-shaped, all rib- 

 bed. Spike erect. Bract, spear-shaped, about equal to the germen. 

 Fl.-stalks and germ, downy, purple. Fl. larger than in Ep, 

 latifolia. Pet. internally white, striped, and streaked with 

 crimson, and a yellow, central line. Germ, long', narrow : in 

 Ep. latifolia, it is short, and inversely egg-shaped. 



E. (jrandijiora. Large White H. Leaves elliptic-spear- 

 shaped. Bracteas longer than the smooth germen. 

 Flowers stalkless, erect. Lip abrupt, shorter than the 

 calyx, with elevated lines on the disk. E. pallens. H. 

 L. 76. Serapias grandiflora. E. B. 271. 



Woods, thickets, chiefly on chalk. Sm.* Shotover Plantations. 



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