CYPRIPEDIUM. | 
to grow, now that we have at last acquired the genuine species, after 
many seasons of confusion with its Japanese rival, which is neither 
C'. macranthon nor C. veniricosum. There isalso a not uncommon and 
hearty Albino of C. macranthon. 
C. montanum is a leafy American species of 1 or 2 feet in height, 
most closely recalling C. Calceolus in habit, as in twisted fine chocolate- 
brown petal-segments, but that the flowers are two or three to a shoot, 
and their ample oval bags (like a bird’s egg) are of a cool waxen white 
with veins of purple within, and a most delicious fragrance. From 
open low woods of California on the Pacific slope. 
C. parviflorum.—tThis species is closely allied to the last, and even 
more closely with C. Calceolus, which it almost exactly repeats in 
America. The plant often offered as C. hirsutum is in reality only a 
larger-flowered form of this, which is general over North America 
and very variable; as is also another garden- and catalogue-species, 
C. pubescens, if it be not indeed a mere synonym of the last. These 
improved varieties are to be preferred to the species in the garden, 
not only because their blossoms are much finer and ampler, but 
because their sepals and petals are not dark but only streaked with 
darkness on a ground of yellowish green. In the garden they grow 
quite heartily with C.Calceolus,and exhale much the same delicate scent. 
C. passerinum is peculiar to the Northern Pacific region. It grows 
about 8 or 10 inches high, with handsome yellow flowers, the segments 
being round and compact and straight, instead of twisting in the 
corkscrew curls affected by the last, which gives them such a saucily 
moustached and military air as they twirl their petals at all beholders. 
The lip too is large and round and paler at the edge, with deep spot- 
tings inside at the base. 
C. Reginae is wrongly C. spectabile. See C. hirsutum. 
C’. speciosum is the beautiful Japanese treasure that for so long has 
been tangled up with C. macranthon and C. ventricosum. It is in 
the same style indeed ; but with more the port and habit of C. Calceolus, 
carrying one magnificent hooded blossom, with petals and sepals 
veined with deep rose on a whitish ground, and the ample oval lip of 
a much richer tone. The sight of this, glowing with its noble baggy 
blossoms of pink and white among the rough grasses on the open 
downs above Ikao, or round the feet of Fuji-san, or peering here and 
there among the light bushes that they share at Shoji with Paeonza 
japonica waving its pearly cups above the Slippers, is enough to 
make any gardener resolve that no cost shall be too great for the 
procuring and success of C. speciosum. But fortunately the plant 
meets culture half-way in the most affable manner, and on any slope 
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