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ters^ and WorsdelP describe many types of modified carpels 

 and displaced placentas in a great variety of flowering plants. 

 These authors describe also many modifications of ovules, but 

 I do not find that either of them records a case of an orthot- 

 ropous ovule in a plant which normally bears anatropous ovules. 



A. ]\I. Showalter 



A STATION FOR THE RAM'S-HEAD LADY'S-SLIPPER 



On May 19, 1921, Philip D. Fagans, Executive Secretarv of 

 the Woodcraft League of America, discovered near Westport- 

 on-Lake Champlain, New York, a colony of the Ram's-head 

 Lady's-slipper (Cypripediitiii arictinnui R. Brown) in bloom 

 and collected a specimen which he showed the next day to Oli- 

 ver P. Medsger. Head of the Department of Biology in the Lin- 

 coln High School, Jersey City, N. J., and myself. Since 

 neither of us had seen this rare orchid growing, Aledsger and T 

 lost no time in visiting the place. Although we did not make 

 a careful census, there were doubtless fifty or more plants in 

 the colonv. Thev were grrowinsf rather scattered in the meso- 



1 Vegetable Teratology. London. Ray Society, 1869. 



- Principles of Plant Teratology. Vol. II. London. Ray Society. igi6. 



