
178 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
it pappoose-root, which rather suggests that a special decoction 
of it is held in reserve for the black-eyed little copper-skins, 
YELLOW LADY’S SLIPPER. (Plate XC//T1) 
Cypripedium hirsutum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Grchis. Yellow. Scentless. Mostly north and east, May, June. 
Flowers: terminal; nodding and subtended by a leaf-like bract. Sepais: 
long, slender. Zzf: one and a quarter inches broad, veined with brown and 
forming an inflated pouch, the opening to which is a rounded orifice. The 
two side petals also streaked with brown ; long and curling. Leaves: alter- 
nate; ovate; clasping; parallel-veined; pubescent. Stem: one to two feet 
high; leafy ; downy. Orchis construction page 64. 
The colour of this orchis is above all enchanting, while the 
coyness of its shape and the twirling side strings breathe out the 
essence of coquetry. There is an alertness, a crispness of 
expression about the out-turned toe which makes us fancy it is 
only awaiting the waving of some fairy’s wand to spring out 
with its companions and mingle in a gay woodland dance. 
On the wooded hillsides where we may have the good fortune 
to find it, there is often growing in close proximity to it the 
smaller lady’s slipper, C. parviflorum. It is of a deeper, richer 
shade of yellow and has the added charm of fragrance. 
The name Cypripedium is from two Greek words which mean 
Venus’s buskin, 
MOCCASIN FLOWER, PINK LADY’S SLIPPER. 
(Plate XCIV,) 
Cypripedium acautle. 
FAMILY COLOUR - ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. Pink. Fragrant. Along the coast and May, June. 
westward to Minn. 
Flowers: large; terminal; nodding and subtended by a leaf-like bract. 
The lip forms a drooping sac an inch and a quarter broad. It appears to 
be split down the middie, but is nearly closed; much veined with a darker 
shade of pink. The sepals and petals vary from green to purple. Leaves: 
two at the base; sheathing the leafless flower-stalk; ovate; many-veined. 
Rootstock: thick. 
The pink lady’s slipper shows very plainly its kinship to the 
pampered darlings of the conservatory. It is a more languid 

