52 GYNANDRIA— DIANDRIA. Cypripedium. 



2, about the same length, or longer, spreading, linear- 

 lanceolate, pointed, wavy. Nect. without a spur; lip oho- 

 vate, inflated, obtuse, membranous, prominent, mostly 

 shorter than the petals, with an irregular longitudinal 

 fissure above. Filam. 2, on the column^ lateral, opposite, 

 spreading, oblong, fleshy. AntJi. lateral, elliptical. Germ. 

 oblong, triangular, furrowed. Style short and stout, 

 somewhat compressed, bearing the stamens, and termi- 

 nating above them in a dilated, flattish, horizontal lobe, 

 or appendage, in the place, as Mi*. Brown justly indi- 

 cates, of a third stamen. Stigma beneath this appendage, 

 and parallel to it, in like manner dilated and flattened, 

 but smaller. Caps, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, angular, fur- 

 rowed. Seeds oblong, numei'ous. 

 Roots creeping. Stevi simple, erect, mostly leafy. Leaves 

 elliptical, acute, many-ribbed, plaited, entire. Fl. termi- 

 nal, mostly solitary, large and handsome, without scent. 



1. C. Calceolus. Common Ladies' Slipper. 



Stem leafy. Appendage to the column elliptical, obtuse, 

 channelled. Lip somewhat compressed, shorter than the 

 petals. 



C, Calceolus. Linn. Sp. PL 1346. H'illd. v. 4. 142. FL Br. 941. 



EngL Bot. v.l.t.]. Hook. Lorid. t. 42. Salish. in Tr.o/L.Soc. 



V. 1. 76. t. 2./. 1. R. Dan. t. 999. RedouL Liliac 1. 19. 

 C. radicibus fibrosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis caulinis, Linn, in Act. 



Ups. 1740. 24. MilL Ic. 162. t. 242. 

 Calceolus n. 1300. HalL Hist. v. 2. 157. t. 43. 

 C. n.4. GmeL Sib. V. 1.2. t.l.f. I. 

 C. Marianus. Dod. Pempt. 180./. 

 C. Mariie. RaiiSyn.38J. Ger.Em.443.f. Lob. Ic.3\2.f. BesL 



Hort. Eyst. vern. ord. 8. t. 6.f. I. 

 Damasonii species quibusdam, sive Calceolus D. Mariae. Bank. 



Hist. V. 3. p. 2.518./. 

 Helleborine floie rotundo, sive Calceolus. Bauh. Pin. 187. 

 Elleborine recentiorum prima. Clus. Hist. v. I. 272. f. 

 E. ferruginea. Dalech. Hist. 1146./ 



In mountainous woods and thickets^ in the north of England, very 



rare. 

 In Lancashire, and in Helks wood by Ingleborough, Yorkshire. 



Ray. In the county of Durham. Rev. Mr. Rudston. Near 



Arncliffe, Yorkshire. Hooker. 

 Perennial. Jtme. 

 Root tuberous, branching, creeping horizontally, with numerous, 



simple, fleshy, smooth, fibres. Stems solitary, 12 or 18 inches 



high, solid, striated, downy, bearing 3 or 4 large, alternate. 



