The Showy Moccasin-Flower. {Cypripcdium regiiur.) 

 This is the most gorgeous Cypnpcdunn in the world, and without doubt one of the 

 niost ancient types of the genus. The stigma is distinctly three-lobed. The plate 



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 the shoe-shaped labellum. as well as the highly decorated interior. 



