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The white helleborine (_Cephalanthera pallens_), the dwarf orchis (_Orchis ustulata_), and the musk orchis (_Herminium monorchis_) occur on the
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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The rarer orchids of the district are the bog-orchis (_Malaxis paludosa_), the narrow-leaved helleborine (_Cephalanthera ensifolia_), and the butterfly orchis
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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The appearance and similarity of the tissues, etc., at once gives suspicion that the lateral membranes of the clinandrum are the two other and rudimentary anthers, which in Orchis and Cephalanthera, etc., exist as mere papillae, here developed and utilised.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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I observed something of this kind in Cephalanthera grandiflora.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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By the way, Cephalanthera has single pollen-grains, but this seems to be a case of degradation, for the rostellum is utterly aborted.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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