CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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black vegetable mould. Requires a half- 

 shady position in leaf-mould, moss, and 

 sand, and should be kept rather dry in 

 winter. 



C. japonicum (Japanese Lady's Slip- 

 per}. About i ft. 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 



present rare plant grows best in pure 

 loam of a heavy nature. Siberia. 



C. pubescens. A dwarf species with a 

 pubescent stem, seldom more than 2 ft. 

 high, flowers early in summer, on each 

 stem one to three flowers ; scentless, 

 greenish yellow, spotted with brown, with 

 a pale-yellow lip from \\ to 2 in. long, 

 and flattened at the sides. America, found 

 in bogs and low woods, from Pennsyl- 

 vania to Carolina. Does well on dry 



Mocassin-flower (Cypripedium spectabile). 



petals, too, are of the same colour, but are 

 dotted with purplish crimson at the base ; 

 the lip large, and curiously folded in front, 

 as in the better-known C. acaule, to which 

 it seems most nearly allied ; the colour of 

 the lip is a soft creamy yellow, with bold 

 purple dots and lines. 



C. macranthum (Large Lady's Slip- 

 per]. This bears a considerable resem- 

 blance to C. ventricosum, but has lighter- 

 coloured flowers, large, of a uniform 

 purplish rose with deeper-coloured veins ; 

 early in June. Lip globose, inflated, 

 and finely marked with deep purple 

 reticulations. This handsome and at 



sunny banks, among loam, stones, and 

 grit. 



C. spectabile (Moca>ssi?i-floiver). The 

 most beautiful of this group ; 15 in. to 2^ 

 ft. high, flowers in summer, one or two 

 on each stem (rarely three), large, with 

 inflated, rounded lip, about \\ in. 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 specimens 

 produce from fifty to seventy flowers on a 

 single tuft, 3 ft. across, formed on a thick 



