Cypripedlum.'] ORCHIDE.E. 



205 



obtuso.— ZzW/. Bot. Reg, t 1666. PL Am. 2. p. 594. — C. album. Ait Bot Mag. t, 



216. — C. Canadense. Mx. — C. Calceolus. 7. L. 



Hae. Canada. Pursh. Dr Todd. Mrs Perceval. Mrs Sheppard. — Flower the largest of any of the N. 

 American species. Sepals and petals vvfiite, lip tinged with purple. 



3. C 7>wZ»e5cen5 (Willd.) ; sepalis lanceolatls, stamiiae sterili triangulari acuto, labello 

 petalis breviore subtus superneque convexo-frlbboso lateraliter coinpresso. Hook. Bot 

 Mag. folio 3024 (ad calcem) ; t. 3024. A. Ph. Am, 2. p. 594. Rick. App. p. 34.— C. 

 pai'viflorum. Bot, Mag. t. 911 {non Willd.). 



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Hab. Canada to the Saskatcha\Yan. Dr Richardson. 7>r?/?HHio»r7. — Sepals narrow, greenish-brown, streaked 

 with purple. Lip yellow. 



4. C. parviflorum (Salisb. in Linn. Trans. \. p. 77. t. 2.f. 2); sepalis lato-ovatis, sla- 

 mine sterili triangulari acuto, labello petalis breviore supra subtusque planiusculo. Hook. • 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3024. Pk. Am. 2. p. 594. 



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Hab. Newfoundland. Miss Brenton; and throughout Canada to Lake Winipeg and the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Dr Richardson. Drummond. N. W. America, in the Blue Mountains. — Very nearly allied to the 

 preceding, and often confounded with it. Sepals broader, and, as well as the petals, chocolate-coloured. 

 Lip deeper yellow, flattened as it were above and below, the sides swelling out. It is, I believe, the more 

 generally diffused of the two species in British N, America. 



5. C. passerinum (Rich. App. p. 34) ; sepalo superiori ovali-subrotundo petala oblonga 

 obtusissima labellumque obovatum ore rotundatum contractuni subasquante, stamine sterili 

 elliptico-cordato obtuse C. parviflorum. Rich. App. ed. \.p. 340 [excl. syn,). 



Hab. Pine woods, from the Saskatchawan to lat. 38*^, and in the Rocky Mountains. Dr Richardson. 

 Brummond. — A very remarkable and most distinct species, found, as far as I know, by no naturalist except 

 those now mentioned. It is admirably described by Dr Richardson. 



6. C. arietinum (Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v, 5. p. 222) ; calyce trisepalo, stamine sterili 

 orbiculari-spathulato, labello saccato-calcarato. Br. in Bot. Mag. t, 1569. 



Hab. Canada ; Montreal (Messrs Chandlers and Buckingham). Goldie. Portage of the Grand Rapid 

 of the Saskatchawan. Drummond. — Only two or three specimens were gathered, and those in fruit; but 

 roots were brought home which flowered in the Belfast Botanic Garden. — A small species, readily distin- 

 guished by the distinct sepals and lip coming to a deflexed point at the apex below, so as, in some directions, 

 to resemble the head of a sheep or ram, 



7. C. gidtatum (Sw.) ; caule diphyllo, stamine sterili ovato emarginato deflexo, sepalo 

 superiori ovato petalisque lanceolatis labellum ovali supra depressum ore patulo sub- 

 aequantibus, Reichenh. Ic. Bot. t. 210. 



Hab. Two specimens only, with withered flowers, were gathered by Dr Richardson at Fort Franklin, 

 on the Mackenzie River, Unalaschka, most abundant. Chamisso.— VXoviQv rather small, beautifully mottled 

 with purple and wliite. The leaves always turn black in drying. 



