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are -acquainted, many of which rival in beauty their tropical 

 congeners. When our rock and bog gardens come to be 

 more fully appreciated, we may hope to see these plants 

 blooming in healthy vigour, lighting up moist shady nooks 

 and corners in our gardens, along with Pinguiculas, Sundews, 

 and no doubt the Californian Pitcher Plant (Darlingtonia 

 californica), Sarracenia purpurea; and perhaps Dionsea musci- 

 pula will bear them company in the southern counties. 

 Hardy Cypripediums. 



G. Galceolus (Europe). — This species is occasionally found in 

 the north of England, and is one of the rarest of our native 

 wildings, bearing solitary flowers. Sepals and petals purplish, 

 veined ; lip pure yellow outside, within marked with deep, 

 orange-scarlet, hairy lines. ^ 



G. jparviflorum (America). — Stems one and two-flowered ; 

 sepals purple, with darker veins, petals linear, twisted like a 

 fanciful corkscrew ; lip yellow, concave or depressed in front. 

 The flowers of this species are smaller and darker coloured 

 than those of the next species, which it otherwise somewhat 

 resembles. 



G. puhescens (l^orth America). — Flowers generally solitary ; 

 sepals and petals yellow, streaked with red, the latter linear 

 and twisted ; lip pure yellow, convex in front. 



G. guttat'um (Northern Russia, Siberia, andlN'orth America). 

 — A rare and lovely little plant ; stem a few inches high, two- 

 leaved ; flowers solitary, of pearly whiteness, spotted and 

 blotched with purple. 



G. macranthum (Siberia). — Flowers rose-coloured, with 

 deeper coloured veins ; lip globose, inflated, with deeper- 

 coloured reticulations. 



G. ventricosum (Siberia). — This very much resembles the 

 last-named species, but the petals are narrower and longer than 

 the lip, and the whole flower is of a mucll deeper rosy purple. 



