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C. JAPONICUM (Japanese Lady's Slip- 

 per). About i foot high, and its hairy 

 stems, which are as thick as one's little 

 finger, bear two plicate fan-shaped leaves 

 of bright green, rather jagged round the 

 margins. The flowers are solitary, the 

 sepals being of an apple-green tint ; the 

 petals, too, are of the same colour, but 

 are dotted with purplish crimson at the 

 base. 



C. MACRANTHUM (Large Lady's Slipper). 

 A choice species, the flowers, large, of a 



C. SPECTABILE (Mocassin-flower) . The 

 most beautiful of this group; 15 inches 

 to 2^ feet high, flowers in summer, one or 

 two on each stem (rarely three), large, 

 with inflated, rounded lip, about i inches 

 long, white, with a large blotch of bright 

 rosy carmine in front. A variety (C. s. 

 album) has the lip entirely white. In 

 America it grows in open boggy woods, 

 moist meadows, and also in peaty bogs in 

 the Northern States. Good native speci- 

 mens produce from fifty to seventy flowers 



Mocassin-flower (Cyprifediuin spectabile]. 



uniform purplish rose with deeper coloured 

 veins ; early in June. Lip globose, 

 inflated, and finely marked with deep 

 purple reticulations. Grows best in pure 

 loam of a heavy nature. Siberia. 



C. PUBESCENS A dwarf species with 

 a pubescent stem, seldom more than 2 feet 

 high, flowers early in summer, on each 

 stem one to three flowers ; scentless, 

 greenish yellow, spotted with brown, with 

 a pale yellow lip from i| to 2 inches long, 

 and flattened at the sides. America, 

 found in bogs and low woods, from Penn- 

 sylvania to Carolina. An accommodating 

 species, and does well in leaf-soil, loam, 

 stones, and grit. 



on a single tuft, 3 feet across, formed on 

 a thick mat of fleshy roots. The plant is 

 hardy, and succeeds if planted out in a 

 deep, rich, peaty soil, with loam and leaf- 

 mould added. Woodland shade and 

 moisture are very desirable, with a few 

 nodules of sandstone or rough sandstone 

 grit mixed with the soil. It also thrives 

 in turfy loam on a moist bottom ; in any 

 case, deep planting is necessary. 



CYRILLA RACEMIFLORA( Leather- 

 wood}. A shrub, or low tree, covering 

 a vast area in the warmer parts of 

 America, yet hardy in the warmest 

 parts of this country, where it grows 



