350 83. ORCHIBACEiE. 



Lower bracts leaflike, lanceolate, attenuate. Fl. green with 

 the lip purple, sometimes all purple. Peduncle shorter than the 

 downy germen. Label of the lip broader than long, crenate. 

 Id a slender form of this plant the upper 1. are lanceolate, label 

 cordate blunt with a minute apiculus, and Sep. ovate-lanceolate. 

 —Mountain woods. P. VII. VlII. E. S. I. 



2. E. midia (Fries !) ; st. soHtary, 1. ovate-oblong the upper 

 ones lanceolate acute, lower bracts exceeding the fl. and fr., 

 label entire triangular-cordate acute equalling the lanceolate sep. 

 and pet., basal hunches plicate rugose. — Fr. Herb. Norm. viii. 

 65 ! — Narrower and longer in all its parts than IE. latifolia. 

 Only the very lowest 1. ovate, intermediate lanceolate, upper 1. 

 lanceolate-attenuate and merging gradually into the linear- 

 lanceolate bracts; sheaths funnelshaped. Fl. gTcen tinged with 

 purple. Ped. shorter than the downy germen. Label longer 

 than broad, crenate. Fr. abruptly obovate. — Woods. P. VIlI. 



E. S. I. 



8. E. violdcea (Bor.) ; st. many clustered, 1. ovate-lanceolate 

 the upper ones narrower passing gradually into slender bracts, 

 label triangular-ovate acuminate falling short of the ovate-lan- 

 ceolate Sep. and pet., hunches plicate-crsnate. — E. B. S. 2775. 

 M. xiii. 486. — Fl. " yellow-green tinged with pink." St. and 

 1. much tinged with purple. Ped. shorter than the downy 

 germen. Label longer than broad, entire, with an attenuate 

 point.— Woods. P. VIII. E. 



4. E. ovdlis (Bab.) ; st. solitary, 1. ovate-oblong acute the 

 upper ones lanceolate 1 or 2 lowest bracts exceeding the fl. but 

 falling short of the fr., label transversely oval mucronate equal- 

 ling the ovate acute sep. and pet., basal hunches plicate-rugcse. 

 —E. B. 8. 2884. Helleborine &c. No. 2. Ray 383.— L. small ; 

 sheaths funnelshaped, rather close. Bracts all much smaller . 

 than even the most uppermost leaf. Fl. varying from a dark yel- 

 low to blackish red, peduncle shorter than the downy germen. 

 Label transversely oval, crenate, with a small acute point, and 

 elevated folded and tubercularly crenate hunches above. St. 



6 — 18 in; high. — May be E. atro-virens Hoffm. ; but that is 

 more of len combined with E. media. — Settle, Yorkshire. Little 

 Doward Hill, Herefordshire. Ormes Head. Durness, Sutherl. 

 Burren, Glare. P. VII. E. S. I. 



5, E. palus'tris (Sw.) ; 1. lanceolate, bracts falling short of the 

 somewhat drooping fl., label roundish blunt crenate equalling the 

 perianth. — E. B. 270. — St. 12 — 18 in. high. Oal. purphsh green, 

 pet. and lip white tinged with purple. — Moist places, not rare, 

 P.VIL Vm. E.S.I. 



