4. Cypripedium L, Lady's Slipper, 
srect leafy herbs with simple stems from coarse fibrous roots or 
short rootstocks, ‘saves several, alternate, broad. Flowers showy, 
solitary or fewe Sepals spreading, narrow, Gistinct or two united under 
the lip, which is an inflated sac commonly several centimeters long. 
Column short, incurved, covered b: a fleshy cetaloid sterile stamen, 
ertile stamens 2, one on each side of the column below the s tigma, 
9 Leaves alternate; lip 3 cm. long { Ce. montanum 
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, Leaves opvosites; lip 12 mm, long 2, Ce. fasciculatum 
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1. C. montanum Dougl. wady's Slipper. Stem 40-60 em, tall; upper leaves 
10-15 cm. long, elliptical, acute, narrowed at the base, sheathing the 
stem, wholly glandular pubescent, upser leaves diminishing into a foliar 
bract subtending the solitary flower; sepals 4-6 cm, long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, browmish-green, the lower united except at the apex; petals 
Similar but narrower; lip ovoid, commonly 3 cm, long or longer, whitish, 
veined with about 12 purple lines} sterile stamen ovate or obovate, 8-10 
mn, long, stigma somewhat shorter; cavsule narrowly oblong, 2 cm. long, 
curving, glandular. 
Rare;:| occurring apparently either in very dry woods or in moist 
meadows; solitary. iriest KR. Exp. Sta., 4000 ft.; lioscow lite; Coeur a! 
Alene; Little Potlatch nk, 
Ze C. fasciculatum Kelloge. ootstock slender, the old leaf-bases 
adherent, fibrous; stems erect, 10-12 om, tall, villous and viscid in the 
unper part, the lower booted by two or more scarious scales; lexves os 
appearing ovvosite, €-10 cm, long, 6-7 cm, broad, oval, glabrous, sessile 
end clasnine; peduncle 4-8 cm, lons, villous, the bracts green, lanceolste, 
