Field notebooks : Switzerland, 1931-1938
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7-4-34, E. epipactis latifolia All. Coats III 414. Bar 309, BON sltt 343z = E. Helleborine Crawfry BON 454 = Helleborine latifolia Druce SOUT 167. Fl. (Red col. 6-24 & opened in house) illim. Paths from U-M pigery towards west, just at entrance woods. Carefully epd with E. leptochila 7-2-34 and with E. atropurpurea "B" & "C" (see 6-26-34). Blunt is marked out from the other E. by the broadly ovate lvs, the lower ones being almost circular. Bracts ascending (not reflexed as in all spec. of E. atro- flary almost glabrous (not nearly looking as in E. atro-) and very slender & tapering to blade; inflated of fatty top-shaped with pedicel distinct as in E. atro) Fl. greenish, with inside of lower member & lip purplish (-in coloring exactly like E. lept.) E. latifolia E. leptochila E. atropurpurea. Opening: lower member & lip broader (sidewise) and shallower (front) than in other species. with 2 bores (slightly crenate at base) upper member (-E. lept. has no bores but is slightly guckerred in middle, E. atro. has three bored very regularly crenate often merging to make a triangular effect) Lower member & lip is bowl-shaped (not thrust somewhat forward, clin-like. The back of the anther which is large & conspicuous and tilted forward in E. atro-, in E. latifolia