BRIHASH AND OTHER HARDY ORCHIDS. 525 
This species is easily cultivated in England; it should be 
planted in sandy leaf-mould or loam, and be kept moist 
all the summer and shaded in bright weather. It may be 
grown successfully in pots along with such species as 
C. spectabile. It is found wild in swamps and damp woods 
in North America, whence it was introduced over 100 
years ago. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 3024. 
C. pubescens.—A good, useful plant for the rock-garden 
or herbaceous border. It grows to a height of 2ft., and 
has leaves 8in. long by 2in. wide, tapering to both ends 
and covered with soft hairs. The flowers are large; sepals 
24in. long and jin. wide; petals qin. long, narrow and 
twisted; both yellow with a few blotches of brown and a 
few hairs at the base of the petals. Pouch 2in. long, ovate, 
irregular in shape, folded over at the mouth, flattened at 
the sides, coloured pale yellow. This species flowers in 
June. It should be planted in light loam or leaf-mould, 
although it is said to grow naturally on stiff clay in 
woods. A native of North America; introduced in 1790. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1883, vol. xix., p. 785. 
C. spectabile.—This is the handsomest and most useful 
of all the hardy kinds of Cypripedium. When happily 
situated, it produces stems between 2ft. and 3ft. in height, 
bearing lanceolate, plicate leaves about 7in. long, acute- 
pointed and hairy. The flowers are borne singly or in 
pairs, and are each 3in. across; sepals almost round, rin. 
long, concave; petals }in. wide, 2in. long; pouch almost 
orbicular, broadest at the base, where it measures about 
isin. across; staminode large, ovate, white. The colour 
of the sepals and petals is white, of the pouch some shade 
of rose, the best varieties being a clear red; others have 
wholly white flowers. This grand species inhabits peat 
