1666 
* CYPRIPEDIUM spectábile. 
Large white Lady's Slipper. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. CYPRIPEDIEE. Lindl. Nizus Plantarum, p.22, No. 234. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra, vol. 10, fol. 788. 
C. spectabile ; sepalis subegualibus oblongis obtusis, petalis lanceolatis planis 
longioribus, labello petalis longiore ventricoso subsulcato, stamine sterili 
cordato-ovato obtuso. 
C. spectabile. Swartz in act. holm. 1800, p. 251. Salish, in act. Linn, 1. 78. 
t. 3. f.3. Willd. sp. pl. 4.144. 
C. album. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 3.303. Bot. Mag. t. 216. 
C. canadense. Mich. Amer 2. 161. 
C. regine. Walt. Carol. 222. Jide Pursh. 
A native of the low meadows and bogs of North America, 
particularly in the mountainous tracts from Canada to Ca- 
rolina, flowering in May and June, according to Pursh. 
Our wild specimens were gathered in Canada by Mr. 
Gouldie. 
This remarkable plant is the finest of the North American 
Cypripediums, and is not by any means uncommon in the 
gardens of this country, its roots being periodically imported. 
It has, however, resisted all attempts at propagating it, and 
seldom lives above a year or two after its arrival. Those 
who manage it the best treat it as a greenhouse plant, keep- 
ing it constantly under glass, in a moderately warm atmo- 
sphere, and very near the light until its leaves have withered, 
when it is removed to a dry shelf till its growing season re- 
turns. Except in the colour of «its flower, it is very nearly 
the same as the Siberian C. macranthos, already figured at 
fol. 1534 of this work. 
* See fol. 1534. 
