A FREAK LADY-SLIPPER 



By Raymond L. Fedder. 



HILE on an excursion with my brother to a distant and^ 

 to us, unknown piece of woods, last Decoration Day,, 

 we discovered^ a pecuHar form of the lady-sHpper (Cypripe- 

 duiin) with what might be called a double flower. In this the 

 lower sepal is developed into an extra shoe-like part of the same 

 texture and color and with the same brown markings oii the 

 inside as in the usual flower. 



