ORCHIDEjE. 
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of which the young plants are produced. See Leight. Fl. Shrop. 
434. St. a foot high, with sheathing brown scales. L. none. 
Spikes dense, cylindrical, many-flowered. Lip linear-oblong 
with 2 spreading lobes. — This is the original Neottia of Linnzeus. 
Act. Ups. 1740. p. 33. — Shady woods. P. ? VI. Bird's-nest. 
1. E. latifolia (All.) ; 1. ovate clasping, lower bracts longer 
than the fl., terminal division of the lip entire with a minute point . 
— There are four very different plants included under this species, 
one or more of which is probably distinct ; they may be cha- 
racterized as follows : — 
a. E. latifolia ; 1. broadly ovate longer than the internodes, 
upper 1. ovate-oblong, lower bracts longer than the fl., terminal 
division of the lip roundish-cordate obtuse with a small recurved 
point shorter than the broadly ovate sep. and pet. *' its keel not 
crenate above." — E. B. 269.— L. ovate, very broad, the very 
uppermost sometimes lanceolate-attenuated ; lowermost leafless 
sheaths close. Lower bracts foliaceous lanceolate attenuated. 
Fl. green with the lip purple, sometimes all purple. Peduncle 
shorter than the downy germen. Lobe of the lip broader than 
long, crenate. — Mountainous woods. P. VII. VIII. 
b. E. media (Fries) ; 1. ovate-oblong the upper ones lanceolate 
acute, lower bracts longer than the fl. and fr., terminal division of 
the lip triangular-cordate acute as long as the lanceolate sep. and pet. 
its keel " crenate above." — R. Icon. f. 1141, 1142. — Narrower 
and more elongate in all its parts than E. latifolia, only the very 
lowest L ovate, intermediate lanceolate, upper L lanceolate at- 
tenuated and merging gradually into the linear-lanceolate bracts ; 
sheaths funnelshaped. Fl. "green tinged with purple." Pe- 
duncle shorter than the downy germen. Lobe of the lip longer 
than broad crenate. — Woods. Shropshire. Matlock. Abberly, 
c. E. purpurata (Sm.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate the upper ones 
narrower, lower bracts longer than the fl. and fr., terminal divi- 
sion of the lip triangular-cordate acute shorter than the ovate-lan- 
ceolate sep. and pet. its keel plicate-crenate above. — E.B. S. 2775. 
L. becoming gradually narrower as they ascend the st. and 
merging insensibly into the linear-lanceolate bracts. Fl. " yellow- 
green tinged with pink." St. and 1. much tinged with purple. 
Peduncle shorter than the downy germen. Lobe of the lip 
longer than broad, entire, exactly like that of E. media but with 
a more attenuated point. — Woburn. Reigate. Crawley, Suss. 
11. Epipactis Rich. 
Wors. P. VIII. 
E. 
P. VIII. 
E. 
d. E. ovalis; 1. ovate-oblong acute the upper ones lanceolate, 
1 or 2 lowest bracts longer than the fl. but shorter than the fr., 
