No, 414, 
CYPRIPEDIUM PARVIFLORUM, 
p Order. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
This is a native of North America, grow- 
ing in shady fertile woods from New Jersey 
to Carolina. It has been long known in 
England, being frequently imported: we 
have been in the habit of receiving roots of 
it for many years : they are of difficult cul- 
ture, and seldom live long here. We have 
found them succeed best in rather large 
pots, planted in a mixture of peat earth and 
rotten saw-dust. They produce their most 
curious and beautiful flowers in the month 
of May. They may be kept out of doors, 
not being at all liable to receive injury 
from the cold. It is seldom indeed that 
they can be increased by dividing their 
roots, which is the only way we know of. 
