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* CYPRIPEDIUM spectabile. 

 Large white Lady's Slipper. 



GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. CvPRiPEDiEiE. Lindl. Nixus Plantarum, p.22, Ao. 234. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra, vol. 10, fol. 788. 



C. spectabile ; sepalis subaqualibus oblongis obtusis, petalis lanceolatls planis 

 longiorlbus, labello petalis longiore ventricoso subsulcato, stamine sterili 

 cordato-ovato obtuso. 



C. spectabile. Swartz in act. holm. 1800, p. 251. Salisb. in act. Linn. 1. 78. 

 t.S.f.S. Willd.sp. pi. 4. 144. 



C. album. Ait. Kew. ed. 1. 3. 303. Bat. Mag. i. 216. 



C. canadense. Mich. Amer 2. 161. 



C. reginffi. Walt. Carol. 212. Jide Pur sh. 



A native of the low meadows and bogs of North America, 

 particularly in the mountainous tracts from Canada to Ca- 

 rolina, flowering in May and June, according to Pursh. 

 Our wild specimens were gathered in Canada by Mr. 

 Gouldie. 



This remarkable plant is the finest of the North American 

 Cypripediums, and is not by any means uncommon in the 

 gardens of this country, its roots being periodically imported. 

 It has, however, resisted all attempts at propagating it, and 

 seldom lives above a year or two after its arrival. Those 

 who manage it the best treat it as a greenhouse plant, keep- 

 ing it constantly under glass, in a moderately warm atmo- 

 sphere, and very near the light until its leaves have withered, 

 when it is removed to a dry shelf till its growing season re- 

 turns. Except in the colour of its flower, it is very nearly 

 the same as the Siberian C. macranthos, already figured at 

 fol. 1534 of this work. 



* See fol. 1534. 



