632 OEOHIDACE^ cypeipbdium 



rather short : floral bracts very small : flowers few to many, sessile or nearly 

 so: perianth about 6 lines long, gibbous at base: 'sepals and petals oblong- 

 lanceolate, nearly equal; lip a little shorter, the saccate base with broad 

 wing-like margins, the nerves somewhat tuberculate-crested within, upper 

 portion very broad and suborbicular, the nerves in the centre wavy-crested : 

 column 2 lines long, about twice longer than the anther. In damp places 

 in forests, California to Washington. 



Tribe 4 Cypripediese Lindl. Orch. 525. Stamens S, the 2 lat- 

 eral ones perfect, the other sterile and forming a dilated fleshy ap- 

 pendage above the terminal stigma. Pollen pulpy -granular. 

 9 CYPRIPEDIUM L. Sp. 951. 



Glandular-pubescent herbs with coarse fibrous roots, flat many- 

 nerved leaves with sheathing base and few large flowers in leafy- 

 bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, the lateral often united into 

 one under the lip : petals similar but usually narrower: lip an 

 inflated sac, the incurved margin auricled near the base. Column 

 ver}' short, incurved, bearing at each side a 2-celled anther on a 

 short filament. Stigma terminal, disk-like, broad and obscurely 

 3-lobed, covered above by the fleshy triangular and pedicelled 

 sterile anther. Pollen pulpy- granular. 



C. parvillornm Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. i, 77. Stems slender, 1-2 

 feet high, leafy : leaves oval or elliptic to lanceolate, 2-6 inches long : se- 

 pals and petals longer than the lip ; petals usually twisted ; lip 7-15 lines 

 long, bright yellow, more or less marked with purple stripes, spots or 

 blotches : sterile stamen triangular, yellow and purple spotted like the lip. 

 In woods and thickets, Washington and Brit. Columbia to Newfoundland, 

 Georgia and Missouri. 



C. montannm Dougl. Lindl. Orch. 528. More or less roughly and 

 glandular-pubescent, stout, 1-2 feet high, leafy : leaves ovate to broadly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-6 inches long: flowers 1-3, shortly-pedicelled : 

 sepals and petals brownish, narrowly to linear-lanceolate, 18-30 lines long, 

 the lower sepals united nearly to the apex; lip oblong, an inch long, dull- 

 white veined with purple : sterile anther ovate-triangular to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, 4-6 lines long, on a slender filament, deeply channeled above, yellow 

 with purple spots, somewhat longer than the stigma: capsule erect or 

 nearly so, oblong, 10 lines long. In open woods, California to British 

 Columbia and Idaho. 



C. Californlcnm Gray Proc. Am. Acad, vii, 386. Kather rough pu- 

 bescent : stems stout, 1-4 feet high leafy : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate. 3-6 inches long, the upper lanceolate and gradually reduced to 

 foliaceous bracts of the long loose raceme : flowers 1-20, shortly pedicelled; 

 sepals and petals greenish-yellow ; sepals broadly oval, the lateral united 

 to the apex, acute, 6-20 lines long, equalling the oblong-linear acutish 

 petals ; lip obovoid, white or light rose-color, veined with purple, 8-10 lines 

 long, pubescent within at the base: sterile anther rounded and arching, 

 nearly sessile, 2 lines long, equalling the roughened stigma: capsule reflex- 

 ed, oblong, 8-15 lines long. Along streams and in springs, southern 

 Oregon and northern California. 



C. fascicnlatnm Kellogg in Herb. Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xvii, 380. 

 Stems slender, 2-10 inches high, pubescent, scariously sheathed at base 

 and bearing a pair of nearly opposite leaves near the middle, and a small 

 lanceolate bract above: leaves ovate to nearly orbicular, 1-3 inches broad, 

 obtuse or rounded to acutish, pale green and with 3 prominent ribs 



