RAMSHEAD LADYSLIPPER 
Cypripedium arietinum Robert Brown 
Ramshead ladyslipper is the rarest of the North American species 
of Cypripedium, and one of the most unusual in form and color. It 
is much daintier than its sisters in its habit of growth. It occurs only 
in cold, damp woods, and happy is he who is fortunate enough to 
find it. | 
Ramshead ladyslipper grows from Massachusetts and New York 
to Minnesota and northwatd to Quebec and Manitoba. 
The specimen sketched was obtained in Chittenden County,Ver- 
mont, by Mr. Edwin Hale Lincoln of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 
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