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Cypripedium flavescexs DC; Redoute, Lil. i : pi. 20, 1802. 



C. parviflonnn Sims, Bot. Mag. 23 : 911. 1806. — Britton, Man- 

 ual 291. 190 1. Not Salisb, 

 C. ptibesceiis Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. l : pL ji. 1823. — A. 

 Gray, Manual. Not Willd. 



Distribution : Quebec and New England to Montana and Wash- 

 ington, south in the mountains to West Virginia. 



A species of shady ravines and moist rich woodlands, of decid- 

 edly more boreal distribution than the last, which seems to follow 

 quite closely the range of C. piibescens Willd. In addition to the 

 laterally flattened (the greatest expansion being vertical) Up, the 

 lip is often subglobose and conspicuously ascending, and the leaves 

 narrower and more ascending, than in the other yellow-flowered 

 species of our flora. 



Cypripedium hirsutum Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 3. 1768 



C\ regmae Walt. Fl. Car. 222. 17S8. — Britton & Brown, Illus. 



Fl. I : 458, 1896. — Britton, Manual, 291. 1901. — Small, 



Fl. Southeastern U. S. 311. 1903. 

 C. album Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 303. 1789. 

 C. spcctabile Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. I : 78. //. 3. f. 3. 179^ ■ 



Also of Gray's Manual. 

 C. canadc7ise Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2 : 161. 1803. 



The error of crediting Miller's name C. hirsutum, to a yellow- 

 flowered species has been quite prevalent in recent publications. 

 Fox (Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn. 9 : 423-449. 1895) uses 

 Miller's name for a yellow-flowered species, but whether the 

 mistake originated with his use of the name is not certain, as he 



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gives no authority for his usage. 



In support of the present usage of the name hirsutum, I would 

 quote Miller himself: "The third sort \_C. hirsuiuvi] grows natur- 

 ally in America where the inhabitants call it the moccasin flower. 

 This rises a foot and a half high. The leaves are of an oblong 

 oval form and are deeply veined. The flower is large, of a red- 

 dish brown color, marked with a few purple veins." The height 

 of the plant described precludes its being referred to C. acaule 

 Ait. The name moccasin-flower was a name applied to both 

 species and is still so used by country folk, but restricted in recent 

 books to C. acaule. 



