RAMSHEAD LADYSLIPPER 



Cypripedium arietinum Robert Brown 



Ramshead ladyslipper is the rarest of the North American species 

 of Cypripediumj 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 northward 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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