No. 363. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CALCEOLUS. 
Class, Order. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
The very curious plant now before us is 
a native of most of the northern countries 
of Europe, and has been found in some few 
places in England, but rarely. Gerarde in- 
forms us that he had a plant of it in his 
garden. He has given a tolerably accurate, 
rude figure of it, and also of another ki 
in his herbal: they are however impres- 
sions from the same blocks, which were 
previously used by Dodonseus. John Bau- 
hin's representation of it looks as if it had 
been made up from one of these, with the 
two flowers shortened and reversed. It is 
difficult of cultivation, though so well de- 
serving of it. We have found it to thrive 
best in a mixture of loam and decayed saw- 
dust. It requires no shelter in winter, = 
should either be kept in a large pot, 
planted in the ground. The roots may 5 
occasionally separated for increase, which 
operation should be performed in autumn. 
