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slender. FI. very small, in a lax spike, greenish. Lip with 2 
hasal and 2 terminal linear lobes. Turfy mountainous moors in 
the north. P. YL — VIII. 
10. Neottia Linn. 
I. N. Nidus-ains {Rich.). — E.B.48. Hook., Sm. — 
Whole plant j)ale reddish -brown. Root formed of numerous 
short thick fleshy fibres from the extremities of which the young 
plants are produced. See height. FI. Skrop. 4.34. St. a foot high, 
with sheathing brown scales. L. none. Sj)ikes dense, cylimh'i- 
cal, many-flowered. Lip linear-oblong with 2 spreading lobes. — 
This is the original Neottia of Linnmus. Act. Ups. 1740. p. 3.3. 
— Sluady Avoods. P. ? VI. Bird’s-riest. 
II. Epipactis 7Zfe/i. 
1. E. latifolia (AIL); 1. broadly ovate longer than the inter- 
nodes, upper 1. ovate-oblong, lovA'er bracts longer than the fl., 
terminal diinsion of the lip entire roundish-cordate obtuse with a 
small recurved point shorter than the broadly ovate sep. and pet. 
“ its keel not crenate above.” — E. B. 2fi9. — L. ovate, very broad, 
the very u])])ermost sometimes lanceolate-.attenuated ; lowermost 
leafless sheaths close. Lower bracts leaflike, lanceolate, atte- 
nuated. Fl. green Avith the lip purple, sometimes all )>urple. 
Peduncle shorter than the doAA-ny germen. Lobe of the lip broader 
than long, crenate. — Mountainous w'oods. P. VII. VIII. 
2. E. media (Fries) ; 1. ovate-oblong the upper ones lanceolate 
acute, loAA'er bracts longer than the fl. and fr., terminal division 
of the lip entire triangular-cordate acute as long as the lanceolate 
sep. and pet. its keel “crenate above.” — R. I. f. 1141, 1142. — 
iSarroAver and more elongate in all its ]>arts than E. latifolia. 
Only the very loAvest 1. ovate, intermediate lanceolate, upper 1. 
lanceolate-attenuated and merging gradually into the linear-lan- 
ceolate bracts ; sheaths funnelshaj)ed. Fl. “ green tinged Avith 
purj)le.” Peduncle shorter than the doAvny germen. Lobe of 
the lip longer than broad crenate. — /3. purpurata ; 1. ovate-lanceo- 
liite the upj)er ones narroAver, terminal division of the lip shorter 
than the ovate-lanceolate sep. and pet. its keel plicate-crenate 
above. E. purpurata Sm., E. B. S. 2775. Fl. “ yelloAv-green 
tinged with pink.” St. and 1. much tinged with purj)le. Pe- 
duncle shorter than the do\A'n 3 #germen. Lobe of the lip longer 
than broad, entire, exactly like that of E. media but AAith a more 
attenuated point. — AVoods. Salop. Matlock. Abberly, AA’’ors. 
ji. Woburn. Reigate. CraAvley, Suss. P. VIII. E. 
.3. E. ovalis (Bab.); 1. oA-ate-oblong acute the upper ones lan- 
ceolate, 1 or 2 loAvest bracts longer than the fl. but shorter than 
the fr., terminal division of the lip transversely oval acute as long 
