64 CYPRIPEDIUM ACAULE.—-STEMLESS MOCCASIN FLOWER. 
plants in the country at present are too small and puny to bear 
this.” In our own country a correspondent of the “ Bulletin of 
the Torrey Botanical Club,” in the third volume, remarks: “I 
cannot keep Cypripedium acaule, although I have seen it in 
nearly pure dry sand and in wet sphagnum (moss.) _ It is curious 
that C. acaule has only one bud to each plant.” So far as this 
last point is concerned, it will be noted that the one illustrated 
has two, though only one flowered. 
The purple moccasin flower is rather widely distributed. We 
have special notes of its being collected in almost all the seaboard 
states from Maine to North Carolina. It has been found in 
Kentucky, and in the northwestern part of the United States as 
far as Minnesota, 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLATE.—Complete plant, a Massachusetts specimen furnished by Mr. 
Jackson Dawson. 2. The column, or central part of the flower enlarged, and showing the 
united mass of stamens with the pistil, or, as it is said, its “gynandrous”’ character. 
