632 ORCHIDACEZ CYPRIPEDIUM 
rather short: floral bracts very small: flowers few to many, sessile or nearly 
so: perianth about 6 lines long, gibbous at base: sepals and petals oblong- 
lanceolate, nearly equal; lip a little shorter, the saccate base with broad 
wing-like margins, the nerves somewhat tuberculate-crested within, upper 
portion very broad and suborbicular, the nerves in the centre wavy-crested: 
column 2 lines long, about twice longer than the anther. In damp places 
in forests, California to Washington. 
Tribe 4 Cypripediex Lindl. Orch. 525. Stamens 3, the 2 lat- 
eral ones perfect, the other sterile and forming a dilated fleshy ap- 
pendage above the terminal stigma. Pollen pulpy-granular. 
9 CYPRIPEDIUM L. Sp. 951. 
Glandular-pubescent herbs with coarse fibrous roots, flat many- 
nerved leaves with sheathing base and few large flowers in leafy- 
bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, the lateral often united into 
one under the lip: petals similar but usually narrower: lip an 
inflated sac, the incurved margin auricled near the base. Column 
very short, incurved, bearing at each side a 2-celled anther on a 
short filament. Stigma terminal, disk-like, broad and obscurely 
3-lobed, covered above hy the fleshy triangular and pedicelled 
sterile anther. Pollen pulpy-granular. 
C. parviflorum Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. i, 77. Stems slender, 1-2 
feet high, leafy: leaves oval or elliptic to lanceolate, 2-6 inches long: se- 
pals and sebiile longer than the lip; petals usually twisted ; lip 7-15 lines 
long, bright yellow, more or less marked with purple stripes, spots or 
blotches: sterile stamen triangular, yellow and purple spotted like the lip. 
In woods and thickets, Washington and Brit. Columbia to Newfoundland, 
‘Georgia and Missouri. ) 
C. montanum Dougl. Lind]. Orch. 528. More or less roughly and 
glandular-pubescent, stout, 1-2 feet high, leafy: leaves ovate to broadly 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-6 inches long: flowers 1-3, shortly-pedicelled : 
sepals and petals brownish, narrowly to linear-lanceolate, 18-30 lines long, 
the lower sepals united nearly to the apex; lip oblong, an inch long, dull- 
white veined with purple: sterile anther ovate-triangular to oblong-lanceo- 
late, 4-6 lines long, on a slender filament, deeply channeled above, yellow 
with purple spots, somewhat longer than the stigma: capsule erect or 
nearly so, oblong, 10 lines long. In open woods, California to British 
Columbia and Idaho. 
C. Californicum Gray Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 386. Rather rough pu- 
bescent: stems stout, 1-4 feet high leafy: leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate. 3-6 inches long, the upper lanceolate and gradually reduced to 
foliaceous bracts of the long loose raceme: flowers 1-20, shortly pedicelled; 
sepals and petals greenish-yellow; sepals broadly oval, the lateral united 
to the apex, acute, 6-20 lines long, equalling the oblong-linear acutish 
petals; lip obovoid, white or light rose-color, veined with purple, 8-10 lines 
long, pubescent within at the base: sterile anther rounded and arching, 
nearly sessile, 2 lines long, equalling the roughened stigma: capsule reflex- 
ed, oblong, 8-15 lines long. Along streams and in springs, southern 
Oregon and northern California. 
C. fasciculatum Kellogg in Herb. Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 380. 
Stems slender, 2-10 inches high, pubescent, scariously sheathed at base 
and bearing a pair of nearly opposite leaves near the middle, and a small 
lanceolate bract above: leaves ovate to nearly orbicular, 1-3 inches broad, 
obtuse or rounded to acutish, pale green and with 3 prominent ribs 
