CYPRIPEDIUM. 
even in the United States, except in Maine and Vermont, and the 
region of the Great Lakes, in damp low marls and the edge of peat- 
swamps, where it grows to a foot high, with leaves of 6or 10 inches. It 
is usually a smaller jewel, sending up three or four dark apple-green 
leaves, ample and oval, with the fine bare length of the remaining 
foot-stalk ending in a single flower of extraordinary design. For the 
sepals and petals are of a brownish pink and all separate, while the lip 
is mottled white and dark purple, the usual little bag, but with a 
triangular mouth filled up with fluff, and tipping at the base to a 
blunt snout, which makes the sack look as if it were making a long 
nose at the earth. The effect, in profile, is rather that of the ram’s 
head, which has earned the plant its name. (It has subsequently 
appeared in China as C. « plectrochilum.’’) 
C. Calceolus still lingers in the upland rough woods of Craven here 
and there, nor has even been afraid to erect its head once more after 
many centuries, in the woods where Mrs. Thomasin Tunstall, that 
worthy gentlewoman and great—even excessive—lover of these de- 
lights, quarried it so pitilessly to send to Parkinson. Here the leafy 
stem ends most often in large twin flowers of twisting narrow chocolate 
segments, and a rounded lip of soft pale-yellow, deliciously sweet with 
the scent of roses. 
C. californicum attains a far taller stature, growing to as much 
as 4 feet in the Californian woods on the Pacific Slope. It is a stout 
and leafy species, producing as many as a dozen flowers sometimes, in 
loose spikes, energing from leaf-like bracts. The blooms are small 
and neat in form, rather like those of a diminished C. hirsutum, 
alike in colour and design, softly pinkish and whitish and comely to 
see. In cultivation C. californicum is too seldom known. 
C. candidum is a small plant from cold swampy lands, sending up 
a downy leafy stem, not unlike that of C. Calceolus, but only attaining 
some 6 inches or a foot, and ending always in one solitary flower, 
with chocolate-coloured segments, and a most attractive neat round lip 
of pure waxen white, striped with purple inside, and breathing sweet- 
ness like our own solitary Slipper, the last westward stray of its noble 
Asiatic-American family. 
C. debile is a pallid, puny thing from the woods of Japan, so frail 
that though its little greenish-purply flowers are very small, and its 
stem only a few inches high, it cannot even bear so much of a burden, 
but declines and flops in a cowardly and disgraceful manner. 
C. fasciculatum is found under young pine-trees along the Pacific 
slope of California, and is almost the smallest of the race, a minute 
thing of no merit for the garden. 
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