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Cypripedium Album. White-Petal'd 

 Ladies Slipper. 



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C/tf/J a»i Order. 

 Gynandria Diandria. 



Generic Character. 

 NecJarium ventricofum inflatum cavura. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CYPRIPEDIUM album radicibus fibrofis foliis ovato-lanceo- 

 latis caulinis, petalis obtufis. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. V. 3. p. 303. 

 HELLEBORINE Calceolus difta mariana flore gemello 

 candido, venis purpureis flriato. Pluk. 

 Mant. 101. t. 418./ 3. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM hirfutum foliis oblongo ovatis venofis hir- 



futis flore maximo. Mill. Diff. ed. 6. 4.10. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM fpetJabile. Corolla labio fuperiore ovali 

 bafi retufo concavo fubtus carina obtufa, 

 inferiore petalis longiore groffo. Salijb. 

 Traiif. Linn, Soc. V. 1. p. 78. 



Of the genus Cypripedium, Great-Britain produces only one, 

 America feveral (pedes ; of thefe the album here figured, 

 (whofe name is derived from the whitenefs of its petals, and 

 with which the neclary mull not be confounded) is by far 

 the moll magnificent; indeed there are few flowers which to 

 fuch Angularity of ftru&ure add fuch elegance and beauty : 

 it grows fpontancoufly in various parts of North- America, and 

 chiefly in the woods ; was introduced to the royal garden at 

 Kew, by Mr. William Young, about the year 1770, but 

 was known to Mr. Miller, and cultivated by him at Chelfea 

 long bcfoie that period; this intelligent and truly practical 

 author informs us, that all the forts of Cypripedium are with 

 difficulty preferved and propagated in gardens; he recom- 

 mends them to be planted in a loamy foil, and in a fituation 

 where they may have the morning fun only ; they muft, he 



obferves, 



