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SERAPIAS* cordfgera ; var. longipétala. 
Pale heart-lipped Serapias. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncnipex. § Ophrydee. 
SERAPIAS Linn. — Pollinia 2 granulata, caudiculis duabus glandule 
unicee affixis, cucullo communi inclusee. Anthera antica, erecta, persistens. 
Stigma subrotundum, concayum. Columna semiteres, ultra antheram in 
cuspide producta. Labellum trilobum, lobis lateralibus erectis, medio de- 
pendente acuminato. Sepala acuminata, conniventia, subzequalia. Herbze 
terrestres (Europe) ; radicibus tuberosis; caulibus foliosis; spic&d s¢mplict 
pauciflora. ‘ 
S. cordigera ; bracteis coloratis floribus longioribus, labello basi bicalloso. 
ez, labello atro-fusco. 
S. cordigera. Linn. sp. pl. 1845. Bot. rep. 475, &c. 
Helleborine cordigera. Sebast. rom. pl. fasc. 1. p. 13. t. 4. f. 2. Tenore 
fi. nap. 2. 315. 
B. longipetala; labello pallido. 
Helleborine longipetala. Tenore fl. nap. prodr. p. 53. Sebast. fl. rom. 
prodr. 312, . 
Helleborine pseudo-cordigera. Sebast. rom. pl. fasc. 1. p. 14. t. 4. f. 1. 
Serapias lancifera. St. Amans ji. agen. p. 378. D’Urville in act. Linn. 
par. 1. 377. 
We cannot agree with the Italian and other Botanists 
quoted above, in distinguishing this plant from S. cordigera, 
to which it seems to us to belong in every essential respect. 
The paleness of the flowers is, indeed, the only character 
that can be readily seized to distinguish them. 
It is a beautiful spring flower, common about Rome in 
very dry soil. It is also a native of the neighbourhood of 
Agen, where it was found by M. de St. Amans; and 
* So called after the Egyptian divinity Serapis. 
