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0RCHIDACEJ3. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 
umn) triangular. — Bogs and damp low woods, common northward 
and westward. May, June.— Stem 2° high, pubescent, as are the 
broadly oval acute leaves. Flower scentless. Lip l£'-2' long. 
2. C. parvfflornm, Salisb. (Smaller Yellow Lady’s 
Slitper.) Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; lip Jlattish above and be* 
low, bright yellow; sterile stamen triangular; leaves oval, pointed.— 
Rich low woods, rather common. May, June. —Stem 1° or so high. 
Flower fragrant: perianth more brown-purple than the last: lower 
sepal often narrower than the upper, frequently cleft at the apex as 
deeply as in C. Calc&olus. Lip $' -1' long. 
3. C. candid ii m, Muhl. (Small White Lady’s Slipper.) 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate; lip flattish laterally, convex above, white; 
sterile stamen lanceolate ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute. — Low 
grounds, Penn, to Wisconsin, rare. — Plant 5' -10' high, slightly pu¬ 
bescent, 1-flowered. Petals and sepals greenish, nearly equal in 
length, not much longer than the lip, which is £' long. 
* * Stem leafy , 1 - 3-; flowered : sepals and petals flat and rounded, 
white, not longer than the lip , the 2 anterior sepals perfectly united 
into one. 
4. C. spectdbile, Swartz. (Showy Lady’s Slipper.) Se¬ 
pals round-ovate or the upper orbicular, rather longer than the oblong 
petals; lip much inflated , white tinged with purple in front;* sterile sta¬ 
men heart-ovate. — Peat-bogs, Maine and W. Massachusetts to Wis¬ 
consin, common northward. July.—The most beautiful of the ge¬ 
nus, downy, 2° high, stout, very leafy. Leaves ovate, pointed. Lip 
fully 1^' in diameter, sometimes almost all purple. 
* * * Scape naked , 2-leaved at the base, 1-flowered; sepals and petals 
greenish , shorter than the lip, the 2 anterior perfectly united into one. 
4L acaule, Ait. (Stemless Lady’s Slipper.) Sepals 
oblong-lanceolate, pointed, nearly as long as the linear petals; Up 
drooping, obovoid, purple, with a fissure in front; sterile stamen 
rhomboid, pointed; leaves oblong. — Dry or moist woods, under 
evergreens, common. May, June. — Downy: scape 8' —12' bigb» 
with a bract at the top. Lip nearly 2' long, veiny, sometimes pale, or 
even white. 
* * * * Stem leafy, 1-flowered : the 2 anterior sepals separate. 
6. C. arietinnm, R. Brown. (Ram’s-head.) Upper sepal 
ovate-lanceolate, pointed; the 2 lower and the petals linear and near¬ 
ly alike, rather longer than the red and white veiny lip, which is pro¬ 
longed at the apex into a short conical deflexed point; sterile stamen 
rounded; leaves 3 or 4, elliptical-lanceolate, nearly smooth. (Cryo* 
sAnthes, Raf. Arietinnm, Beck.) — Swamps and damp woods, Maine 
and Vermont to Wisconsin northward, very rare. June.—Stem 
slender, 6'-12' high. Perianth greenish-brown : lip small, somewhat 
conical, hairy at the orifice, long. 
