CYPRIPEDIUM. 
C. repandum has often wrongly been called C. hederaefolium, a 
name to be now dropped. It has thin-textured green leaves, of a 
broad, broad-pointed heart-shape, cut into shallow wide vandykes all 
round. The flowers also appear in spring, rather pinched and narrow, 
about the same height as the foliage, and of a most dazzling, malignant 
carmine, which looks its best and most effective when seen springing 
here and there in the young grass. 
C. Rohlfsianum is near C. africanum, alike in home and habit. 
The leaves are kidney-shaped, irregularly cut, and toothed at the 
edge; they appear in autumn, and close on their heels tread the 
fragrant blossoms of intense colour, paling to the tips. 
The above list comprises, up to date, all the recognised species ; 
so that future names, unless described as new species (as, for instance, 
unproven C. Jovis), may be taken as synonyms or pseudonyms among 
the above, many of which, indeed, may be local developments one 
out of another; as CC. alpinum, hiemale and tbericum from C. coum, 
and C. balearicum from C. repandum ; CC. africanum and Rohlfsianum 
from C. neapolitanum. Lonely in the race stands the isolated magni- 
ficence of Cyclamen persicum, distinct from all others of the family 
in carrying its fruit-heads on erect stems, instead of adopting the 
watch-spring fashion invariable in the rest. 
Cynoglossum has lost almost all its gems. C. longiflorwm must 
be found as Lindelofia, C. Wallichiit under Eritrichium, C. race- 
mosum under Paracaryum, C. stylosum under Solenanthus, and 
C. umbellatum under Mattia. Remain then, these : 
C. furcatum, if ever offered true, is a worthless annual. 
C. nervosum remains a beautiful thing of a foot high or so, from 
upper elevations in the Western Himalaya, taking kindly to culture in 
any sunny soil, throwing up sparsely hairy stems that end in showers 
of beautiful large flowers of deep azure like a neat Anchusa. Seed. 
But C. sphacioticum, which comes from the stony places high up on the 
Cretan mountains, and is some half a foot tall, is a perennial species, 
with goodly azure flowers even bigger than those of Paracaryuwm myoso- 
toeides. Any other Cynoglossum advertised must be quested for in 
other races. 
Cyphomattia lanata or Cynoglossum lanatum is a 
Borragineous species from high and rocky places of Lycaon, in Syria, 
Russian Armenia, &c., making a fat crown in the rocks, from which 
it sends up leafy stems, the whole growth being white with stiff hairs. 
These stems rise from 6 to 18 inches, and break at last into a woolly 
shower of very pretty flowers from red to blue. Sunny rocks. 
Cypripedium.—tThe grandestand most august of Orchidaceae,the 
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