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concave. E.) Stem three to five inches high. Spike half as long as the 
stem. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, shorter than the fruit-stalks. Woodw. 
Marsh Twayblade. (Malaxis paludosa. Sm. Br. Willd. Hook. Sw. E.) 
Ophrys paludosa. Linn. Cawston Heath, near Norwich. Mr. Crowe. 
Between Rusland Chapel and Thwaite Moss in Furness Fells. Mr. Jack- 
son. (Norton Bog; Cannock Wood, Staffordshire. Mr. Bagot. Boggy- 
ground in Coedy Tu Du, near Llanberris, Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith. 
Gamlingay Bogs, Relhan, and on Hinton Moor, Cambridgeshire. Dr. 
Manningham. West of Middleton, Yorkshire. Mr. Robson. Bot. Guide. 
A little to the east of Ben Vorlich, and above the house of Ard-vorlich. 
Mr. Arnott. FI. Scot. Vid. also Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 441. and fig. E.) 
P. July—Aug. E. 
SEIIA'PIAS.* Bloss. six petals : Nectary egg-shaped, tumid : 
Lip egg-shaped: Caps, beneath, one-celled, three-valved. 
S. latifo'lia. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, embracing the stem: flowers 
drooping: lip pointed, entire, shorter than the petals. 
(Hook. FI. Loud. 102. E.) E. Bot . 269— FI. Dan. 811— Gunn. ii. 5. 3 to 6 
— Hall. 40. 2. at ii. p. 154— Flower only , Crantz vi. 1. 6. 
Leaves and Jloral-leaves becoming gradually narrower as they ascend. 
Germen pear-shaped. Woodw. Root, fibres thick, filamentous. ( Stems 
green, sometimes more or less of a brownish purple, one to two feet high. 
Spike from three to eight inches long. Flowers from six to twenty or 
more, much closer set than in the next species, pendent. Cal. leaves 
three, brownish green, broad spear-shaped, keeled. Petals, more or less 
approaching, never spreading; Hook. E.) the two lateral ones resem¬ 
bling the leaves of the calyx ; purplish green. Nectary, the upper lip 
glandular, white, fleshy; the lower distended at the bottom into a nearly 
globular cavity; purple within, and of a brownish green without, towards 
the end flat, purplish, and somewhat scolloped. Anthers yellowish white. 
Pistils two, white, fleshy, fixed on the glandular receptacle. Capsule in¬ 
versely egg-shaped, gibbous on the upper side, smooth, or nearly so. 
Fruit-stalk long. 
Broad-leaved Helleborine. (Welsh: Cald.rist llydanddail. S. lati- 
folia. Linn. Epipactis latifolia. Br. Sw. Willd. Decand. Hook. Sm. 
E.) Woods, groves, and hedges. Common in the N. Riding of York¬ 
shire, but I have, as yet, seen only one within fifty miles of Leeds. Mr. 
Wood. Matlock, and northern counties, as Buckham Wood, Cumber¬ 
land, and in an elevated situation at the foot of Conzick Scar, four miles 
from Kendal, amongst loose stones and rubbish, not accessible without 
some danger. Mr. Woodward. In the red rock plantation, Edgbaston 
Park, near Birmingham. (Crosby Marsh, near Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. 
Woods atWigfair, Denbighshire; in the wood near the house atLlewenny, 
close to the bridge that crosses the river Clwvd, Denbighshire ; rocks near 
Daler Goch mine works, Flintshire. Mr. Griffith. In the wood above 
Baron-hill, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Frith Wood, near Painswick, but 
not frequent. Mr. O. Roberts. Ragley Woods. Purton. Near Leaming¬ 
ton, on the north road to Warwick. Perry. Wood N. W r . of Hastings. 
Dr. Ilostock. In the High-wood, Selborne, Hants, under shady beeches. 
White’s Nat. Hist. Woods and pastures at Bothwell, Hamilton, &c. 
Hopkirk, in Hook. FI. Scot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
* (Serapis, an Egyptian deity, probably referring to his iEscuIapian faculty ; or 
perhaps after Serapion, a physician of Alexandria, founder of the empiric sect. E.) 
