212 149. Epipactis. 21. ORCHIDEJL PLend.ph* 
anther marginal, placed behind, heartshape, blunt pointed; 
pollen in oblong ovate masses, agglutinating near the tip ; 
vesicles appearing 3 or 4 globular. — Rhizoma creeping; 
fibres fleshy ; stem leafy ; leaves amplexicaul, 2-rowed, 
ovate, ribbed; spike loose; flowers drooping, bracteate; 
ovary ovate. 
1 . Epipactis latifolia. Broad-leafed hell chorine. 
Lower hractece longer than the flowers; Up pointed, 
shorter than the sepales; leaves ovate. 
Helleborine latifolia montana, Raii Syn. 383, 1. 
Helleborine, Ger. em. 442, 1 . 
Elleborine flore vhidante, Park. 218. 
Serapias Helleborine a, Lin. S. P. 1344. 
Serapias latifolia, Murray Syst. Peg. 814. 
Epipactis latifolia, Willd. S. P. 5, 83. 
Wild white hellebore. Common bastard hellebore. 
Shady woods ; perennial ; July and August. 
Stem 2 feet flowers small, purplish. 
£. atro-ruhens. Flowers deep red, late ; stem very downy. 
Helleborine altera atro-rubente flore, Raii Syn. 313,2. 
Elleborine flore atro-rubente, Park. 218. 
2 . Epipactis palustris. Marsk hellelorine . 
Bractea shorter than the flowers ; lip crenate, blunt, as 
long as the sepales ; leaves lanceolate. 
Helleborine palustris nostras, Raii Syn. 384, 6. 
Serapias longifolia y, Lin. S. P. 1345. 
Serapias latifolia palustris, Huds. FI. Ang. 393. 
Serapias palustris, Scop, Cam. 2, 204. 
Epipactis palustris, Willd. S. P. 5,84. 
Marsh hellebore. 
Marshes; perennial; July and August. 
Stem 12 in. high ; sepales variegated with purple ; S outer 
green ; 2 inner white. 
XVI. 150. CYPRIPEDIUM. Ladies-slipper . 
Ovary not twisted, pedicell short ; perigonium spread 
loosely and rather cross-like ; lower or odd sepales grown 
together into one, placed under the lip, and more or less 
split at the tip ; lip spurless, blown out like a slipper ; gy- 
nostemium rather short, three-cut behind and above, with 
the side divisions anther-bearing before below the tip, the 
intermediate division very large, bent in, without any anther, 
and therefore an imperfect anther or staminodium ; gynizus 
(or stigma) footstalked, rather peltate ; nearly deltoid, placed 
between and above the anthers; clinandrium and rostelhm 0; 
