52^ GYNANDRIA DIANDRJA. 



SERAPiAS. Gen.:pl 1012. 

 NeHarium ovatum, gibbum, labio ovata 

 kiifcUa u SERAPIAS bulbis iibrofis, foliis ovatis ampiexi- 

 caulibus, floribus pendulis. Syft. nat, 593. Seep. 

 Cam. 112B* {Ger, em. 442. /. i* Rivin. t, 6. 

 Hciller. hifi. 1297 /, 40. o'pt.) 



Brcad-Icav'd Helleborine. Anglis\ 



\\-\ v^'oods, but not very cominon, as at Chatelher- 

 aiiUy near Hamilton. Dr. Parfons. And in the 

 wood of Comrie^ in Strathearn. Sibbald^ %, YU* 

 VIII, 



The flalk is €rect^ firm, Hightly villofe, a cubit or 

 more high, and furnijlied with fix or eight ner- 

 vous ova] leaves, the lowermoft broad and ob- 

 tufe, the uppermoti narrov^er and lanceolate^ 

 degenerating gradually into JlipuU. The fpike 

 is about CiK inches long, conMing of nearly ^o 

 nodding flowers, which often lean to one fide 

 of the flalk : the hra5fe.e are longer than the 

 flowers : the germen is downy, pendulous, of a 

 pear-lliaped form, flreaked with three elevated 

 ridges, and fupported by a peduncle. The three 

 upper petals of the flower are of a green colour^ 

 oval-acute form, and flightly villofe on the up- 

 per fide : the lateral ones are a little fhorter, of 

 a more tender texture, of a white colour, with 

 a little tinge of green : two petals connive 

 at firfl, but afterwards recede and (land open : 

 the ne^arium is an oval cavity, moiilened with 

 ■4 green liquor, and furniHied with white ere6l 



marginal 



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