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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Sebapias. 
Var 2. Huds. Leaves variously oval-spear-shaped, much longer and nar¬ 
rower. Flowers very dark coloured, (blackish red.) Corresponding ex¬ 
actly with FI. Dan. 811. except that the spike is much longer. Woodw. 
Sides of mountains near Malham, Yorkshire. Ray. Woods in Westmore- 
land and Cumberland. Mr. Woodward. P. Aug. 
(Nearly resembling the last species is S. (Epipactis ,) purpurata, Sm. Eng. 
FI. “ Root certainly parasitical; whole plant, when fresh, glowing with 
a beautiful red lilac colour:” observed in a wood near the Noris farm, 
at Leigh, Worcestershire, in 1807, by Rev. Dr. Abbot. E.) 
S. palus'tris. Leaves spear-shaped, embracing the stem: flowers 
drooping: lip scolloped, blunt, longer than the petals. 
E. Dot. 270— Hal 39. at ii. p. 154— FI. Dan. 267— Pet. 70. 8— Clus. i. 273.1 
— Dod. 384— Lob. Obs. 169; Ic. i. and 312. I— Ger. Em. 442. 1— Park. 
218. 4 —Pet. 70. 5— Flowers only , Crantz vi. 1. 5. 
(Stem one foot high, purplish above. E.) The outer half of the lip so 
slightly attached as to be easily shaken off. Wood. Flowers mostly 
from one side of the stem. Lip divided transversely almost through; the 
half next the receptacle boat-shaped, with purple ribs, at the bottom 
with a yellow line, spotted with orange; the outer half pendent, 
roundish, with an angular gibbous appendage at the base, in which, 
previous to the expansion of the flower, the anthers are inclosed. Germen 
long and narrow, which, in S. latifolia, is short and inversely egg-shaped; 
when fully grown elliptical. Woodw. Leaves sometimes egg-spear¬ 
shaped, with seven ribs. Hollefear; and sometimes egg-oblong and 
blunt. Fruit-stalk downy, filiform. Germens downy, slightly scored, 
long, tapering down to the fruit-stalks, and a little towards the point. St. 
Spike about four inches long, flowers from six to twelve, much wider 
apart than in the preceding species. The different length of the lip, and 
the shape of the germen will always discriminate this from the species 
immediately preceding; and should the woolliness of the fruit stalk, the 
flower and the germens be constant in this species, and always wanting 
in the former, as it is in the specimens now before me, their distinctions 
will be obvious at first sight. 
Marsh Hellerorine. (Welsh: Caldrist y gors. E.) S.palustris: (by far 
the most appropriate trivial name. E.) Lightf. E. Bot. FI. Brit. &c. 
S. longifolia. Linn, and the last four editions of our Arrangement of 
British Plants.” (Epipactis palustris. Br. Hook. FI. Lond. Sw. Willd. 
De Cand. E.) Marshy and watery places. Bogs at Chisselhurst. 
Ray. Dry chalky ground, as in the old chalk pits by the White House, 
between Eltham and North Cray. Sherard in R. Syn. Plentifully in 
one morassy spot of two or three acres within a mile of Leeds. Mr. 
Wood. Swampy meadows, Robinson’s Street, on the borders of Malvern 
Chase. Mr. Ballard. Bogs in Norfolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Knuts- 
ford Moor. Mr. Aikin. (Bog on Galleywood Common, near Chelmsford. 
Mr. W. Christy. Crosby, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Near the house 
at Llewenny, and in the woods leading from the house to the 
garden at Wygfair, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. Cae rhos Lligwy; 
near Bodgvlchad, &c. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. In bogs at Hilton, and 
Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. In a field one mile east of 
Anstruther. Mr. Chalmers. Hook. Scot. E.) P. July—Aug. 
S. ensifo'lia. Leaves sword-shaped, pointing from two opposite lines: 
floral-leaves very minute; much shorter than the germen: 
