1534 



CYPRIPEDIUM* macranthos, 



Large-flowered Lady 8 Slipper 



*- 



GYNANDRIA D1ANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje Juss. § Cypripedieee Lindl. (Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



CYPRIPEDIUM.— SuprA, vol. 10. fol. 788. 



C. macranthos ; lobo styli cordato-acuminato subsessili, labello petalis 



longiore, ore contracto crenato. — Swartz act. holm. 1800, p. 251. 

 Calceolus petalis nectario eequalibus aut minoribus. Gmel. sib. 1 . p. 2. t. 1 . 



Calceolus purpureus speciosus. Amman, ruth. p. 132. n. 176. t. 21. 

 C. macranthos. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 145. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 2938. 





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Roots of this fine species have been frequently sent to 

 England by Dr. Fischer and other Russian Botanists, but 

 they rarely have produced their blossoms, or even main- 

 tained a feeble existence. Those from which our drawing 

 was made grew under a north wall, in a peat border, in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, where they flowered 

 in May 1829 : they had been presented by John Prescott, 

 Esq., but have now disappeared. 



In its native country it inhabits the northern parts of 

 Asia as far as 58° north latitude, especially plains over 

 which birch-trees are thinly scattered : it also occurs in 

 rather dense birch-woods. Gmelin found it in all Siberia ; 

 Ammann met with it blossoming beautifully in June in a 

 birch-wood on the eastern bank of the Irtisch, above the 

 Tartar village of Tebendrinsk ; we have been favoured by 

 Dr. Fischer with specimens gathered in the Altai, and as 

 far eastward as Dahuria, and with others from as much to 



and *•<$<«. It 



is thought to have been the Cosmosandalum of some Greek writers. 



