burning or inflamed with love or zeal, like a seraphim; thus St. Bonaventure is called the seraphic doctor, from his abundant zeal and fervour.

SERAPIAS in botany, a genus of the gynandria diandria class. The nectarium is oval and gibbous, with an oval lip. There are five species, two of them natives of Britain, viz. the latifolia, or broad-leaved bastard hellebore; and the lingifolia, or white-flowered bastard hellebore.