DIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Serapias. 
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flowers upright: lip of the nectary blunt, half as long as the 
petals. 
{Hook. FI Lond. 77—Purt. 4. E.)— E. Bot , 494— FI Dan. 50 6. 
Root, fibres rather thick, Stem a foot or more in height, numerous, upright. 
Root-leaves long, narrow, pointed, resembling those of reeds. Flowers 
White, eight or ten, in a loose spike. Stem-leaves , the longest six inches 
long, half an inch wide, bright green, smooth, shining, with five or 
seven principal ribs, the lower embracing the stem, the upper alternate. 
{Flowers smaller and not quite so showy as in S. grandiflora, but a slight 
difference will be seen in the lahellum. Leaves much narrower, regularly 
distichous; but the most striking mark of distinction is to be found in 
the bracteas, which in S. ensifolia are much shorter than the germen, 
except in the lower flower; whilst in S. grandiflora they are considerably 
longer, and resemble the leaves. Hook. E.) 
Sword-leaved Helleborine. (Narrow-leaved Helleborine. S. ensi¬ 
folia. Linn. Epipactis ensifolia. Sw. Willd. De Cand. Br. Hook. E.) Under 
Brackenbrow or Brakenuray, opposite H elk’s Wood. In the end of a wood 
where Cypripedium calceolus grows, one mile from Ingledon, Yorkshire. R. 
Syn. Lord Lonsdale’s woods, at Lowther. Mr. Woodward. (Abberley Hill, 
Worcestershire. Mr. Bourne. Alderbury Common, Wiltshire. JDr. Maton. 
Castle Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Winch. Oversley, and Ragley 
Woods, Warwickshire. Purton. Box Hill, Surry. Fakeham Wood, Kent; 
and Norbury Park. Graves, in FI. Lon. Woods of Methven, Perth¬ 
shire. Mr. T. Bishop. Hook. Scot. E.) 
S. grandiflo'ra. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, sessile; floral leaves as 
long as the capsule: flowers upright: lip of the nectary blunt, 
shorter than the petals. 
Dicks. H. S.—{Hook FI. Lond. 76. E.)— Hall. 41. at ii. p. 155— E. Bot. 
271— Ger. 358. 2— Pet. 70. 7—H. Ox. xii. 11. 12— Flower only , Crantz 
vi. 1. 4. 
Stem a foot high. Flowers white, large, rather few. Spike short. Floral- 
leaves large. {Nectary curiously cloven transversely, spotted, and 
streaked with yellow. Floral-leaves sometimes shorter than the advanced 
germen. Roberts. E.) 
White Helleborine. {S. grandiflora. Linn. S. lancifolia. Gmel. Epi¬ 
pactis pollens. Sw. Willd. Hook. E. lancifolia. Hoffm. De Cand. 
E. grandiflora. Sm. E.) Woods and thickets, near Stoken Church, 
Oxfordshire; about Marlow, and in Bedford and Buckinghamshires. 
Mr. Knight’s walks, Wolverley, Worcestershire. Dr. Stokes. Woods near 
Uley. Mr. Baker. (In woods of Sir W. East, Bart, at Hall-place, near 
Harleyford, Berkshire. Sir J. E. Smith. Newton Wood, Derbyshire. Mr. 
Coke. Box Hill, and among the beeches on Ryegate Hill. Mr. Borrer. 
Winterslow Woods, Wiltshire. Dr. Maton. In Claverton Wood, also 
at Hinton Abbey, Somersetshire. Bot. Guide. Juniper Hill, Norberry 
Park, and Ranmore Common, Surry. Mr. Winch. Appin. Capt. Car¬ 
michael. Hook. Scot. Woods about Pains wick. Mr. O. Roberts. 
Wick Grove, Brislington, near Bristol. E.) P. May—June. 
S. ru'bra. Leaves sword-shaped: flowers upright: lip of the nectary 
acute: (floral-leaves longer than the germen. E.) 
