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marginal appendages: the lip is heart- n-iaptd, 

 the end acute and deflexed, and commonly of a 

 whjtifli, or a pale red colour, but ibmetimes 

 this and the whole flower is of a dark red, or 

 blood colour. The capfule is obtufely triangu- 

 lar, has three valves and one cell. 



paluftris 2. SERAPIAS bulbis fibrofis, foUis enfiformibus, 

 feflilibus, floribus penduiis, nedarii labio ob-- 

 tufo, fubferrato, petalis longiore. 



S. Icngi folia Lin, Sy[l. nat. 5^3. S. faluftris, Sco-p, 

 Fl. Cam. 1 1 29. Helleborine palufiris noftras. Rait 

 Syn. p, 384 ;;. 9. {Rivin, t, 3. Haller.hift, 12^6- 

 /. Qg. bona, Oed. Dan. t. 267. opt.^ 



Marfh Helleborine. An?lis. 



In rough boggy paftures and marllies, but not 

 common. We obferv'd it in fome bogs near 

 Duntuhn caflle, in the i(le of Skye. %, VIJ. 



The flowers grow about fifteen or twenty in a teofe 

 fjpike. Thegermen is villofe, and of a dark red. 

 or purplifli colour. The three exterior petals 

 lire green mix'd with red, and Oightly pubefcent. 

 The lateral ones are white with a red bluPn : the 

 lip hangs down out of the flower, and is heart- 

 ihap'd, obtufe, white, fiightly ferrated, and plait- 

 ed on the margins, and often emarginated : the 

 ne^arium is mark'd with red lines and yellow 

 tuberculous fpots. This is enough to didin- 

 guilh it from the preceding, and the whole ha- 

 bit of the plant declr.re.s it to be a different 



fpecies. 



SERAPIAS 



