LADY'S SLIPPEE. 



<'iipnpi'diuM loiigij'olium. 



t'R lady's slipper is the hardy 

 Cijpi-'ipc'din III ca Iceo I us, wh ich 

 is dedicated to St. Ethel- 

 dreda. Strictly speaking 

 there is no other lady's or 

 "ladies' -"^ slipper, and the 

 familiar generic name of 

 this group of orchids is 

 therefurej in a certain sense, 

 apocryphal. But the world 

 has its own way in dis- 

 posing of such matters, and 

 we do not intend to darken 

 these pnges with any dry 

 discussion. 



The cijp ripe (Hums are the 

 most attractive of all the or- 

 chids for the earnest student 

 of j)lant form, because they 

 illustrate in the most patent manner the true theory of 

 the construction of an orchid. On this point a few re- 

 marks may be at once useful and interesting. An orchid 

 flower consists of fifteen parts, in five series of three each. 

 To find these will rarely be an easy task, for all kinds of 



