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flushed with crimson below, and with its upper plant, that ' there are few hybrids which have 

 edge fringed with blackish crimson hairs. I given me so much pleasure as this, since I expect 



Cypripedium grande. 



"Professor Reichenbach, in the Gardeners' \\. maiX develop by and by into an even more 

 Chronicle, vol. xv. (l88l), p. 462, remarks of this superb thing, justifying its name.' " 



