Sour Species of Cypripedium, 79 
Planta pedalis, vel plus. Radix congenerum. Caulis pallide 
viridis, erectus, fimplex, teres, articulatus, hirfutus, folidus, herba- 
ceus, marcefcens, Folia 6 vel 7, pallide viridia, alterna, feffilia, bafi 
amplexicaulia, patenti-recurva, ovali-lanceolata, integerrima, obtufe 
acuminulata—Nervi paralleli, longitudinales, fupra deprefli—hir- 
futa præfertim fubtus, paululum undulata, herbacea, marcefcentia. 
Flores, Bractea, Pedunculus, Germenque ut in Cypripedio Calceolo. 
Petala alba: fupremum erectum; infimum paulo brevius, depen- 
dens ; ovalia: lateralia longitudine fupremi, multo anguftiora, lineari- 
lanceolata, bafi intus barbata: integerrima, obtufa, hirto-pubeí- 
centia præfertim extus, plana—Labium fuperius album maculis 
rubris, lobos laterales obducens, ovale, bafi retufum, integerrimum 
obtufum, utrinque leve, fupra concaviufculum, fubtus carina obtufa 
. —Labium inferius pallide rofeum vittis faturatioribus, petalis longis, 
groffe calceiformé, ore tranfverfe ovale, extus love, intus bafi bar- 
batum lineis macularum rubrarum. Stylus albus—Lobi; laterales 
recurvi, falcati, obtufi; medius fuborbicularis, obtufiffimus, levis. 
Anthere dilute flavæ, ovales, vix infra apicem loborum quibus 
parum latiores. Pollen flavum. Stigma dilute flavum, bafi trian- 
gulo umbilicatum, minute papillofum. 
CYPRIPEDIUM HUMILE* t5.£.4 
Calceolus flore maximo rubente, &c. Catefb. Hif. Car. Append. 5. 3. 
t. 3. mediscris. Helleborine Calceolus dicta, mariana, foliis binis 
e radice ex adverfo prodeuntibus, &c. Plukn. Mantif. p. 101. t. 418. 
f. 1. pefima. 
Corolla labio fuperiore rhomboideo acuminato lateribus deflexo fub- 
tus carina anguftiffima obtufa, inferiore petalis longiore antice fiffo. 
Sponte nafcentem in Nové-Scotié legit A. Menzies. 
Floret fine Mau, Junio. 
* C., acaule, Aiton Hort. Kew. V. 3. 303. : 
Planta 
