Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

' ■ GY^;ANDRIA DIANDRIA. fjil
marginal appendages: the lip is heart- fiiaped,
the ^n^ acute and deflexed, and commonly of a
whitifli, or a pale red colour, but ibmetimes
this and the v/hole f.ower is of a dark red, or
blood colour. The capfule is obtufely triangu-
lar, has three valves and one cell.
^ahjiris 2. SERAPIAS bulbis fibrofis, foliis enfiformibus,
fefTilibus, floribus pendulis, nedarii labio ob-
tufoj fubferrato, petalis longiore.
S. longifolia Lin. Sy/}. 7iat. 5^3. S. palujlris. Seep,
FL Cam. 1129. H^lkborine palujlris nqjlras. Rail
Syn. p. 384 n. 9. {Ri-vin, t. 3. Haller.hiji. 1296*
t. 39. bona. Oed. Dan. L 267. opt.)
Marfh Helleborine. Anglis,
In rough boggy paiiures and marfhes, but not
common. We obJerv'd it in fome bogs near
Thmtulm caftle, in the ifle of i:>kye. %. VII.
The flowers grow about fifteen or twenty in a loofe
fpike. The germen is viliofe, and of a dark red
or purpliih colour. The three exterior petah
are green mix'd with red, and flightly pubefcenr.
The lateral ones are white with a red blufh : the
lip hangs down out of the flower, and is heart-
fhap'd, obtufe, white, flightly ferrated, and plait-
ed on the margins, and often emarginated : the
7ie5farium is marked with red lines and yellow
tuberculous fpots. This is enough to diftin-
guifh it from the preceding, and the whole ha-
bit of the plant declares it to be a different
fpecies.
SERAPIAS