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♦. *- 4- Flowers greenish or yellowish-white, in late summer ; glands oval 

 or lanceolate^ almost facing each other ; spike long and loose. 



H. leucopheea, Gray. N. Y., W. and S. ; 2°-4<^ high; leaves lance- 

 oblong; flowers rather large, the fan-shaped lip 3-parted, f long, and 

 many-cleft to the middle into a thread-like fringe. 



H. Idcera, R.Br. Ragged Fringed O. Lower, l°-2° high ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong ; petals oblong-linear, entire ; divisions of the slen- 

 der-stalked 3-parted lip narrow and slenderly fringed. Bogs N., also S., 

 in high lands. 



H- ^- H- H- Floicers violet-purple, in summer; the lip fan-shaped, S-parted 

 nearly down to the stalk-like base, and the divisions more or less fnnged. 



H. p8yc6des, Gray. S.maller Purple Fringed O. Frequent in 

 moist grassy places, especially N.; leaves oblong, above passing into 

 iance-linear bracts ; spike cylindrical, 4'- 10' long, crowded with smaller 

 and fragrant flowers ; lateral petals wedge-obovate, almost entire ; lip 

 spreading, only ^' wide, cut into denser fringe. 



H. fimbriata, R.Br. Larger Plrple Fringed 0. Lower leaves 

 oval or oblong, upper few and small ; raceme-like spike oblong, with 

 rather few large flowers in early .summer ; petals oblong, toothed down 

 the sides ; lip almost 1' wide, hanging, cut into a delicate fringe. Wet 

 meadows N., also S. to N. Car, 



H. peramncea, Gray. Meadows and banks, Penn., W. and S., along 

 and near the mountains ; flowers of size intermediate between the two 

 preceding, the broad wedge-shaped lobes of the lip moderately cut^toothed, 

 but not fringed. 



12. CYPRIPEDIUM, LADY'S SLIPPER, MOCCASIN FLOWER. 

 (Greek name for Venus, joined to that for a slipper or buskin.) Among 

 the most ornamental and curious of our wild flowers, blooming in 

 spring and early summer. Rootstocks very short and knotty, produc- 

 ing long and coarse fibrous roots. Many tropical species and hybrids 

 are in cultivation. (LesvSons, Fig. 284.) 



* The three sepals separate ; stem leafy, one-flowered. 



C. arietinum, R.Br. Ram'.s-head L. The smallest species, with 

 slender stem 6'-10' high, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and a dingy, purplish, 

 drooping flower, the sac conical and in some positions resembling a ram's 

 head, one sepal lance-ovate, the two others and the two petals linear. 

 Cold woods and swamps. Me. to Minn. 



♦ ♦ Two of the sepals united by their edges into one under the sac or 

 slipper, but their very tips sometimes separate. 



■*- Stem \°-2° high , leafy to the l-o-fowered summit; leaves lance-oblong 

 or ovate, with many somewhat plaited nerves, more or less pubescent ; 

 sac or slipper horizontal, much inflated, open by a rather large round 

 orifice. 



■<+ Sepals and linear wavy-ticisted petals browjiish, pointed, larger than 



the sac. 



C. ctodidum, Muhl. Small White L. Small, barely 1° high, 

 slightly pubescent ; sac like that of the next, but white-purple inside ; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate. Bogs (rare), N. Y., W. and S. 



C. parvifl6rum, Salisb. Smaller Yellow L. Like the next, and 

 in similar situations, liut stems and leaves generally smaller, and flower 

 about half the size, somewhat fragrant, the sac broader than high, deep 

 yellow, ami the lance-ovate sepals browner. 



