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one and a half inches across, with yellow sepals and petals, 

 heavily barred with brownish red and a lip of the same color 

 but of a richer tint. It is extremely showy, and, I am told, is 

 not a difficult plant to manage in an intermediate house. It 

 was introduced from Brazil a few years ago byHorsman & Co. 

 through a collector named St. Leger. There were numbers of 

 other Orchids shown, including, of course, many new hybrid 

 Cypripediums, for novelties in Lady'sSlipper Orchids come now- 

 adays as frequently as new Pelargoniums former- 

 ly did. Some of them might well be classed as 

 Orchid rubbish, but quite worthy of notice was a 

 specimen of Dendrobiu?n IVardiamim, fully four 

 feet high by two and a half feet across, with each 

 stout stem completely wreathed with bloom. 

 Every Orchid grower knows that such a specimen 

 requires a deal of skill to grow it, and a cultural 

 commendation was justly accorded to the ex- 

 hibitor. ]] 1)1. Goldring. 



New or Little Known Plants. 



Cypripediiim fascicu latum.* 



WE have had occasion already to refer to the 

 difference which often exists between 

 the eastern and western representatives of the 

 same geniis. In Cypripediinii we have another 

 instance of the same kind, and one which tends 

 to illustrate also how in some measure the 

 flora of northern Europe and Asia and that of 

 eastern North America including Mexico are 

 more nearly related to each other than either is 

 to the flora of California and the Pacific coast. 

 All are familiar with our common eastern Lady's 

 Slippers, which have for the most part leafy 

 stems bearing one or two or rarely three flowers 

 with a conspicuous and usually large white or 

 purplish or bright yellow lip. None of these 

 range as far west as the Rocky Mountains, in 

 which, as in the broad interior region beyond, 

 within the limits of the United States no 

 species of the genus is found. The several 

 Mexican species are of the same general char- 

 acter, with large flowers, as are also those (.)f 

 the temperate region of Europe and Asia. 



On the Pacific coast there are four species, 

 one of which is here figured. This, it will be 

 noticed, is peculiar in its single pair of cauline 

 leaves, and in its very small greenish flowers, 

 which are usually several in number and some- 

 what clustered at the top of the stem. In its 

 foliage it resembles the subarctic C. gullatutn 

 of Alaska and northeastern Siberia, which, how- 

 ever, has but a single and a rather larger flower. 

 C. fasciculatum is found in the Cascade Moun- 

 tains of Washington Territory and southward 

 in the mountains to Lassen's Peak in California. 

 Its lip is less than half an inch long, and the 

 sepals and petals are not greatly longer. C. 

 Californicum, of which a figure will be given in 

 a future number, has a leafy stem with small 

 flowers solitary in the axils of several of the 

 upper leaves, and the greenish yellow sepals 

 shorter than the lip. The remaining species, 

 C. montanum, comes nearer to its eastern rela- 

 tives in its long brownish sepals and petals, but 

 the lip is small and the flowers are peculiar in 

 being very fragrant. 6". W. 



Aquilegia longissima. 



O EFERRING to the illustration and description of this Colum- 

 -•-^ bine, p. 31, let me say a word about it as a garden plant ; 

 It " was found first by Dr. Palmer in August, i88c3, in the Cara- 



* C. fasciciilat™, Kell.; Watson. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 380. Low (from 3 inches 

 to a foot in heisht) the stem villous-pubescent and bearinsr a pair of ovate or 

 broadly elhptical leaves : flowers one to four, approximate, shorter than the 

 bracts; sepals and petals greenish, lanceolate, acuminate, six to ten lines 

 long, the lower sepals united ; lip depressed-ovate, tour or Ave lines Ions?, green- 

 ish-yellow with a brown-purple margin. 



col Mountains, 21 miles southeast of Monclova, in the State 

 of Coahiula." 



Di'. Palmer secured herbarium specimens and seeds for the 

 Botanic Garden, Harvard College. The seeds were given to 

 me, and from them in the spring of 1881 I raised a few good 

 plants ; some of these were distributed among our corre- 

 spondents at home and in Europe. During the first year the 

 plants were grown in a cold-frame. In the spring of 1882, 



Fig. 16. — Cypripedium fascieulatum. 



leaving two plants in the frame, I set out the others in the rock- 

 ery. All of them bloomed thefollowing summer, coming into 

 bloom about the end of July and continuing in flower till the 

 end of September. A few were sent to correspondents, the 

 others were wintered where they had been growing all sum- 

 mer ; those in the rockei'y, having, in common with the other 

 plants, a light mulching of tree leaves and sedge. In the fol- 

 lowing spring (1883) they were all alive and as healthy and 

 fresh as .1. clirysantJia or any other species, and gi-ew and 



