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[. Ep ip act is . 
scales rather than leaves. Flowers 6 — 8 , in a short lax spike, pale 
vellowish-green. Outer sepals linear-lanceolate, keeled ; 2 lateral 
inner ones shorter, erecto-connivent. Lip oblong, white, nearly entire, 
waved at the margin, with a few purple blotches, deflexed. Column • 
elongate. — This genus holds a middle place between this section and 
the next. Mr. Brown considered the pollen-masses to be truly pul- 
verulent. Dr. Lindley asserts that they are really waxy, although 
less so than in the preceding genera, and only show a pulverulent 
structure when bruised in water. 
II. Anther 1, attached to the bach of the column , or subterminal. 
Pollen-masses granular ; pollen in a very lax state of cohesion 
(farinaceous), or combined into lobes (but not waxy') elasti- 
cally cohering (sectile). N eottide^e. 
4. Epipactis Hall. Helleborine. 
Lip free from the column, much contracted or articulate in 
the middle : lower lobe very concave, upper one entire at the 
apex. Pollen farinaceous. — Name given to some kind of Hel- 
lebore by the Greeks. 
* Upper segment of the lip with two projecting tubercles or plates at 
its base above. Column short. Anther sessile. Ovary straight, 
on a twisted stalk. Epipactis Rich. 
1 . E. latifulia Sw. ( broad-leaved H.) ; leaves oblong or ovate 
many-nerved, upper ones narrower, raceme elongate many- 
llowered, lower bracteas longer than the flowers, upper lobe of 
the lip broadly ovate or deltoid acute somewhat cordate at the 
base broadest below the middle with two tubercles at the base as 
long as or a little shorter than the sepals nearly quite entire. — 
a. leaves broadly ovate upper ones ovate-oblong, upper lobe of 
the lip roundish broader than long shorter than the broadly 
ovate sepals. Serapias E. B. t. 269. — j (3. leaves ovate-oblong, 
upper ones lanceolate, upper lobe of the lip reniform broader 
than long as long as the ovate acute sepals. E. ovalis Bab. : 
E.B.S. t. 2884. — 7 . leaves ovate-oblong, upper ones lanceo- 
late, upper lobe of the lip triangular longer than broad shorter 
than the ovato-lanceolate sepals (bracteas mostly all longer 
than the flowers). E. purpurata Sin. : E. B. S. t. 2275. — d. 
leaves ovate-oblong, upper ones lanceolate, upper lobe of the 
lip triangular longer than broad as long as the ianceolate sepals. 
E. media Fries: Bab. Man. 
Woods in mountainous countries, not unfrequent. — / 8 . Settle, York- 
shire ; Little Doward Hill, Herefordshire ; Ormeshead, Caernarvon- 
shire. — 7 . Woburn Abbey; Reigate, Surrey; Crawley, Sussex. — 
5. Salop; Matlock; Abberley, Worcestershire. 11 • 7,8. — Rhizome 
creeping, with long fibres. Stem 1 — 3 feet high ; lower leaves varying 
much in breadth, the upper ones always narrower. Flowers in a very 
