THE ORCHID REVIEW. 279 
CYPRIPEDIUM SPECTABILE AT HOME, 
THE following extract is taken from an article entitled ‘Some Orchids of 
Eastern Vermont,” by Alice E. Bacon, in a recent number of Rhodora 
(vol. ii. pp. 171, 172), and supplements the notes given at page 243 of our last 
issue. _ She is writing from Bradford, Vermont, in the Connecticut Valley, 
and remarks :— 
‘About ten miles from here is a large swamp of several acres, which is 
literally crowded with gigantic specimens of Cypripedium spectabile; it has 
been practically undisturbed for generations, being far from tourist routes, 
and known only to the country people as a species of Valerian, and a 
specific for nervous troubles. Several hundred stems were gathered last 
year without any perceptible effect on the mass; many of the flowers were 
double—that is, with two inflated lips to one calyx, and the stems were 
from 2 to 3 feet high.” 
Nearer the village, she says, is situated a swamp which was literally 
covered with flowering plants of the same during the last week in June, and 
a little earlier fine specimens of C. pubescens and C. parviflorum were 
gathered there. On a hill near by, an abundance of C. acaule was in 
flower at the end of May. 
We do not understand the phrase relating to double flowers, unless 
it means two flowers at the apex of one shoot, in which case the ‘ calyx” 
would mean the two bracts. 
PLEUROTHALLIS LEUCOPYRAMIS. 
Tuis graceful and deliciously fragrant little species has again appeared 
in cultivation, plants having been imported by Messrs. John Cowan & Co., 
of Gateacre, with some Masdevallias, and one which has just flowered at 
Glasnevin, with Mr. F. W. Moore, proves identical on comparison. It is 
believed to be a native of Costa Rica, and was originally described by 
Reichenbach in 1877 (Linnea, xli., p. 47), and afterwards figured by the 
same author (Xen. Orch., iii., p. 14, t. 210, fig. x). It flowered in the collect- 
ion of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., at Reigate. It is a dwarf species, with 
stems about 24 inches long, and the leaves about equal or a little longer, 
oblong in shape, light green above, and blotched all over underneath with 
light dusky brown. The flowers are white, about four lines long, and borne 
in racemes of about eight or ten each, while their fragrance resembles that 
of Narcissus, a character which I have not noticed before in the genus. 
Altogether it is a most interesting little plant. 
me ASR: 
