CYPRIPEDIUM. 
C. fasciolatum, however, is a stalwart Asiatic, close in the kinship 
of CO. Franchetti, but that the flowers are very much larger yet, with 
a round instead of an oval lip, of intense deep colour. 
C. Franchetit takes us to the cradle of at least one branch of the 
race, to where, on the Tibetan borderland, in the rough grassy scrub 
- of the mountains, is found a perplexing interfading group of Slippers. 
C. Franchetii is closely akin to C. tibeticum and the lovely Japanese 
C. speciosum, of which it has the big hooded flower, the swollen 
oval sack, the broad and drooping petals, all the parts being veined 
with rose-purple on a whitish ground, while the lip is of a richer flush 
all over. Its chief distinction from the confusing and obscure section 
of Slippers huddled into the name-of C. macranthon will always lie 
in the fact that its stems are much more copiously woolly with a shaggy 
down. The height and habit of foliage in these do not greatly differ 
from those in C. Calceolus, though, as a rule, they are rather taller 
and stouter, and ampler in the leaf. See Appendix. 
C. guttatum is a fairy among its kind, filling the dreary birch forests 
and lone pinewoods of the far North with beauty ; away over the dim 
expanses of the Siberian woodland dance those ample broad-hooded 
blossoms of pure-white, with their swelling lip that is blotched and 
marbled most fantastically with rose. If the plant be hard to grow 
(as hard it has always proved), this is probably only on account of its 
rooting habit, that makes it so specially difficult to collect. For C. 
guttatum sends fat rhizomes running and zigzagging here and there 
over the face of the ground, and so much resents being broken and 
torn that our chief hope must lie in collecting wide unbroken sods of it 
from its native forests, and bringing them into cultivation as they 
are. The whole growth is about 8 inches high, the stem being very 
fluffy at the base, and then set with a pair of oval leaves, grooved in 
regular parallel lines of nerves, and carrying one single bloom at the 
top of the long bare foot-stalk. It should have a damp level place 
in sandy peat, in close shade, and be kept as dry as possible in winter, 
to remind it of its Russian coverlid of snow. 
C. himalaicum is another species of the mountains of Asia, closely 
allied to C. Franchetit and C. tibeticum. 
C.hirsutum.*—It is indeed a tragedyin the garden that names so apt 
and specially honourable as C. Reginae and C.spectabile should have had 
* No: C. hirsutum of Miller, 1768 (which is the earliest name), though applied to 
the “Moccasin flower,” is not sufficiently certainly attached by description to the rose- 
and-white Moccasin flower, to justify Robinson and Fernald in taking it as the first valid 
name of C. spectabile, Salisb. C. spectabile, Salisb., is, however, itself antedated by C. 
Reginae, Walt., 1788; so that we are left, after all, with the best and most adequate 
name for the Queen of Slippers, as the only valid one. 
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