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Flowers small, solitary, and terminal. Labellum shoe- 

 shaped, white, striped with purple interiorly; about i inch long ; 

 orifice small, with edges inflected. Sepals and petals lanceo- 

 late, greenish-brown and purple ; lower sepals imperfectly 

 united. Stem leafy, 6-12 inches high, pubescent. Leaves. 

 3-4, sheathing, erect, crowded, acute, 3-5 inches long, %-i>^ 

 inches wide, several scales below, 7-9 nerved. 



Co7itine7ital Range — From Connecticut, Pennsylvania west- 

 ward to Indiana, North Dakota, Columbia Plains, on the 

 Canadian shore of St. Clair River, to the Barrens of northern 

 Kentucky, and Fort Hill, California, which station appears 

 doubtful ; more central distribution being from central New 

 York to North Dakota. 



Neiu England Range — Recently reported for Connecticut 

 by Mr. A. W. Driggs, of East Hartford. 



4.— CYPRIPEDIUM HIRSUTUM Miller, 1768 



{Cypripedium pubescens Willdenow, 1805) 



Large Yei,i*ow Lady's Swpper — Downy YeIvI<ow 



MOCCASIN-Fl^OWER 



The specific name, hirsutum, refers to the whole plant being 

 hirsute, or clothed with hairs. 



Large bogland or damp mountainside orchid, with fleshy- 

 fibrous roots. May I9th-June 15th. 



Flowers dull chrome yellow, 1-3, terminal, shoe-shaped, 1-2^ 

 inches long. Labellum shoe-shaped, inflated, convex above, 

 chrome yellow, edges of orifice inflected, lined with downy 

 hairs and dotted lines of carmine. Sepals and petals graceful, 

 petals very much twisted ; lower sepals imperfectly united ; 

 siskin-green and brown-purple. Stem leafy to top, i-2>^ feet 

 high, pubescent. Leaves, usually 5, broadly ovate, 3-5 inches 

 long, 1^-3 inches wide ; 7-9 nerved ; plicate and hirsute, said 

 to cause poisonous irritation similar to Rhus. Roots used as a 

 nervine.' 



Continental Range — From the wooded country of the sub- 

 arctic lands in latitude 54°-64'' North, southward throughout 

 Canada, New England, to Alabama ; westward to North 

 Dakota, Colorado, slightly beyond the Continental Divide in 

 the Rocky Mountain region. 



New England Range — Maine, common ; New Hampshire, 

 common; Vermont, frequent; Massachusetts, abundant; Rhode 

 Island, rare ; Connecticut, rare. 



' Nicholson's ///. Diet, and Card. Ency. Hort. Card. Kew, 

 1887. 



