The Large Yellow Moccasin-Flower. {CypripediuDi hi^sm-mn .) 

 This common Cypripcdium is closely allied with the Small Yellow Fragrant SY)e- 

 cies—Cypripedmm parviflorum—^yith. which it grows in close comradeship, often 

 intergrading. It is also nearly related with the European Yellow Cypripedium (6V- 

 pripedium calceolus). the first Cypripedumi described by Linnaeus in 1 740-1 753 



