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FIG. 275. Moccasin Flower or Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule), one of the 

 commonest and most beautiful of the orchids, found growing in sandy and rocky woods from 

 Newfoundland to North Carolina, and westward from Minnesota to Kentucky. The 

 crimson pink flowers are solitary at the summit of long scapes; the lip is large inflated, 

 slipper-shaped, drooping and with a fissure in front instead of a circular opening as in the 

 other species. After Troth. 



leaves for some distance back on the stem. The flowers are yel- 

 lowish-green and the segments of the perianth are similar, and 

 erect or spreading. The lip is united with the column, forming a 



