S E R A P I A S en fifo lia .
Narrow-leaved Helleborine.
G Y N A N D R I A Diandria.
G en. C har. NeBary ovate, gibbous, with an ovate lip.
Spec. Char. Root fibrous. Leaves fword-thaped.
Bradteæ much thorter than the germen. Flowers
ered. Lip obtufe, half as long as the petals.
Sy n . Serapias enfifolia. Linn. Syjl. Veg. ed. 14. 815,
(fynonyms eonfufed). M t k # $ FI. Dan. t. $06.
S. Xiphophyllum. Linn. Suppl. 404.
S. longifolia y. Hudf. 394.
Helleborine foliis prælongis anguftis acutis. Ran
Syn. 384.
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X" O U N D on the top of Aberly hill, Worcefterfhire, and
alfo in Wire foreft in the fame county, by Walter Michael
Mofely, Efq. of Glafhampton, to whom we are obliged for
wild fpecimens of this rare plant, which completes our hiflory
of the Bntilh fpecies of Serapias; fee t. 269, 270, 271, and
437-
This has moll affinity with the grandiflora, and has often
been confounded with that. The root however feems to be
not fo properly creeping, but conlilts of a bundle of long flefhy
fibres. Leaves long and fword-ffiaped, Handing almoft in two
ranks; the uppermoft nearly linear; the lowed: very blunt,
and even emarginate. Bradeae extremely fmall (except the
lowermoflj, fcarcely a quarter fo long as the germen, by which
this fpecies is effentially diftinguiffied. Flowers white, upright.
Germen flender, ftriated. Lip abdut’half as long as the petals,
obtufe, with white elevated ribs running longitudinally, and in
the front a yellow crefcent-like fpot.