64 CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE. STEMLESS MOCCASIN FLOWER. 



plants in the country at present are too small and puny to bear 

 this." In our own country a correspondent of the " Bulletin of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club," in the third volume, remarks : " I 

 cannot keep Cypripedhmt acaule, although I have seen it in 

 nearly pure dry sand and in wet sphagnum (moss.) It is curious 

 that C. aamle has only one bud to each plant." So far as this 

 last point is concerned, it will be noted that the 'one illustrated 

 has two, though only one flowered. 



The purple moccasin flower is rather widely distributed. We 

 have special notes of its being collected in almost all the seaboard 

 states from Maine to North Carolina. It has been found in 

 Kentucky, and in the northwestern part of the United States as 

 far as Minnesota. 



Explanations of the Plate.— Complete plant, a Massachusetts specimen furnished by Mr 

 Jackson Dawson. 2. The column, or central part of the flower enlarged, and showing tin 

 united mass of stamens with the pistil, or, as it is said, its "gynandrous" character. 



