Epipactis. | LXXXI ORCHIDACER. 437 
2 protuberances at its base. Column short; the anthers terminal; the 
pollen very loosely cohering in the pollen-masses. 
A small genus, ranging over the temperate regions of the northern 
hemisphere. 
Raceme long and leafy. Flowers distant, dull green or purplish. 1. B#. latifolia. 
Raceme rather loose but short. popes pale DERDISHE Teen the 
lip white, tinged with pink . . 2 #. palustris. 
I, &. latifolia, Sw, (fig. 982). Pea Meisacti fo yea shortly 
creeping, with rather thick fibres. Stems usually 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves 
strongly ribbed ; the lower ones ovate and stem-clasping ; the upper ones 
narrower, lanceolate, and pointed, gradually passing into the linear bracts, 
of which the lower ones are often longer than the flowers. Flowers 
pendulous, in a long, one-sided raceme, varying in colour from green to a 
dingy purpie. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 3 or 4 lines long. Petals 
rather smaller. Lip rather small, the lower portion very short. 
In woods and shady places, dispersed over Europe and temperate Asia, 
except the extreme north. Not unfrequent in Britain, but often appearing 
only in single specimens. FV, summer, rather late. ['The upper leaves, 
colour of the flowers, and the form of the terminal lobe of the lip are all 
very variable in Britain, giving rise to many varietal or specific names, as 
viridiflora, Hoffm.; purpurata, Sm.; media, Fries; violacea, Bor.; atro- 
rubens, Hoffm. ; ovalis, Crantz ; and rubiginosa, Crantz. | 
2, E. palustris, Sw. (fig. 983). Marsh Epipactis.—Not so tall as 
Et. latifolia, the leaves narrower, usually lanceolate, and the bracts all 
shorter than the flowers. Racemes loose, but much closer than in £, 
latifolia, and not one-sided ; the flowers larger, slightly drooping. Sepals 
lanceolate, of a pale greenish-purple. Petals rather shorter, white, more 
or less streaked with pink at the base. Lip of the colour of the petals, but 
longer even than the sepals, distinctly divided into two portions, the lower 
one thick and half-clasping the column. 
In moist and marshy places, especially in limestone districts, and near 
the sea, in Europe and Russian Asia, except the extreme north. Widely 
spread over Britain, and abundant in particular spots, yet not a common 
_ plant, and rare in Scotland and Ireland. Fl. summer. 
V. CEPHALANTHERA. CEPHALANTHERA. 
Habit and foliage of Epipactis, but the flowers are sessile, erect, and 
usually larger, white or red, the petals and sepals not so spreading, the lip 
has no protuberances at the base of the upper portion, the column is longer, 
and the anther is shortly stalked. 
A small European and north Asiatic genus, united by some with Epr- 
pactis, whilst others place it in a different tribe of Orchids on account of 
the slight difference in the position of the anther. 
Flowers white or cream-coloured. 
Leaves broad.. Lower bracts longer than the flower, and all 
longer than the ovary . Ll. C. grandiflora, 
Leaves narrow. All the ‘bracts shorter than the ovary ‘ . 2 C. ensifolia, 
Flowers red . 2 ; . & Ci rubra. 
1. C. Bes waidoral Bab. (ie. 984). aires Cephalanthera.—Root- 
stock fibrous. Stem 1 to 13 feet high. Leaves prominently veined as 
in Epipactis ; the lower ones broadly ovate, the upper ones rather broadly 
