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CYPRIPEDIUM* macranthos. 

 Large-flowered Ladys Slipper. 



GYNANDRIA D1ANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^ Juss. % Cypripediese Lindl. (Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



CYP RIP EDIUM.— Supra, vol. lO.fol 788. 



C. macranthos ; lobo styli cordato-acuminato subsessili, labello petalis 



longiore, ore contracto crenato. — Swartz act. holm. 1800, p. 251. 

 Calceolus petalis nectario sequalibus aut minoribus. Gmel. sib. 1. p. 2. t. 1. 



Calceolus purpureus speciosus. Amman, ruth. p. 132. n. 176. t. 21. 

 C. macranthos. Willd. sp.pl. 4. 14.5. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 2938. 



Roots of this fine species have been frequently sent to 

 England by Dr. Fischer and other Russian Botanists, but 

 they rarely have produced their blossoms, or even main- 

 tained a feeble existence. Those from which our drawing 

 was made grew under a north wall, in a peat border, in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, where they flowered 

 in May 1829 : they had been presented by John Prescott, 

 Esq., but have now disappeared. 



In its native country it inhabits the northern parts of 

 Asia as far as 58° north latitude, especially plains over 

 which birch-trees are thinly scattered : it also occurs in 

 rather dense birch-woods. Gmelin found it in all Siberia ; 

 Ammann met with it blossoming beautifully in June in a 

 birch-wood on the eastern bank of the Irtisch, above the 

 Tartar village of Tebendrinsk ; we have been favoured by 

 Dr. Fischer with specimens gathered in the Altai, and as 

 far eastward as Dahuria, and with others from as much to 



* Literally Venus's slipper, from Cypris, one of her names, and sro&ov. It 

 is thought to have been the Cosmosandalum of some Greek writers. 



