34 APPENDIX. 



358. Cypripedium passerinum, caule folloso, lobo (styli) petaloideo elliptico-cor- 

 dato obtusiusculo, labello obovato ore rotundato contracto petalum superius lato-ovale 

 obtusum et petala lateralia linearia obtusissima sub-aequante. C. parviflorum, Frankl. 

 App. I ed. No. 345. p. 750. exclus. synon. (W.) 



Caiilis pedalis pubescens, pilis laxis (exsiccatione) scariosis saepius deorsum directis, ad insertiones fo- 

 lioruin mag-is densis, uniflorus. Bractea foliacea, inagnitudine valde varians, nunc g-ermine brevior, nunc 

 florem superans. Folia caulina, circiter 4-5, remotiuscula, amplexicaulia, lato-lanceolata, sensim acumi- 

 nata, acuta, multinervia, tenuia, minime carnosa, pube brevissima rara ciliata et utrinque, magis tamen 

 subter villosiuscula ; superiora 4-pollicaria, florem saepius superantia, inferiora sensim in squamas vaginantes 

 diminuta. Flores parvi, floribus Cypripedii guttati minoribus. Petala multinervia ; dua exteriora flaves- 

 centi-viridia, extus puberula et oculo armato pilis obtusis ciliata, superius lato-ellipticum fere orbiculalum, 

 concavum, unguiculare, inferius (ex duobus ronnatis formatura) orbirulatum, brevissime acuminatum, bicus- 

 pidatum, labello dimidio brevius ; dua interiora (lateralia) alba, ligulata, apice rotundata, vix petalo supe- 

 riori longiora. Labellum obovatum, inflatum, magnitudine vix ovi passeris, petala lateralia longitudiiie 

 subaequans, ore rotundato parvulo, marginibus inflexis, extus glabrum, album, intus pubescens purpureo- 

 maculatum, venis flexuosis. Columna (fructificationis) postice filamento staminis sterilis expanso in lobuiii 

 petaloideum, venosum, elliptico-cordatum, obtusiusculum, supra canaliculatum, api(;e ascendente fulvo, late- 

 ribus purpureo maculatis ; filamentis lateralibus singulis cornu obtusum transversum cui anthera affixa 

 est emittentibus. Stigma peltatum, sub-orbiculatum, convexum, villosiusculum, sub tegmine lobi petaioidei. 

 Germen pedunculatum, longitudine circiter labelli, inclinatum, oblongum, infra attenuatum, prismaticum, 

 costatum, pube scariosa villosum. Caulis aridus anni praeteritis epidermide et foliis orbatus capsulam 

 ruptam gerens et caulis floriferus saepe contigue in radicem (repentem ?) infixi sunt. 



Hab. In pinetis (non ultra, lat. 58° visum.) 



Obs. Accedit C.spectabilia^oA diifert caule saepius bifloro, floribus rault6 majoribus, labello antice fisso 

 et notis aliis. 



Mr. Nuttall first found this plant, but published no description of it. He intended to have given it the 

 appellation of C. album, which had been already applied by Aiton to C. spectabile. 



359. C. PUBESCENS, Willd. iv. p. 143. Pursh. ii. p. 594. (W.) 



360. C. HUMiLE, Willd. iv. p. 144. Pursh. ii. p. 595. (W.) 



a. petalis flavescenti-viridibus vel fuscescentibus, labello purpurascente, intus venis 

 saturatius purpureis. 



/3. labello flavescenti-albo. 



Hab. Cum priore in sylvis opacis rupestribus. 



MONCECIA. 



361. Chara translucens, Eng. Bot. t. 1855. (B.) 



362. Typha latifolia, Pursh. i. p. 34? (W.) 



363. KoBREsiA sciRPiNA, Willd. iv. p. 205. (B.) 

 Carex. 1. Spicis dioicis. 



364. C. DioicA, WiUd. iv. p. 207. (W.) 



365. C. BciRPoiDEA, Mich. Am. ii. p. 171. Pursh. i. p. 34. C. Wormskioldiana, 

 Hornemam. Fl. Dan. t. 1528. (W.) 



