• The American Botanist 



VOL. XIX TOLIET, ILL., NOVEMBER, 1913 No. 4 



7/ovember' s ski/ is ch/il and drear, 



VJovem ber' s leaf is red and sere, 



Tjhe sAeep beneath the lowering heaven, 



Tjo sheltered dale and down are driven, 



2{Jhere j/et some faded herbage pines, 



J^nd yet a watery sunbeam shines/ 



^n meeJc despondency they eye 



Uhe withered sward and wintery sky. 



- SCOTT 



THE NORTH AMERICAN CYPRIPEDIUMS 



By Grace <"rREYLOCK Xiles. 



^ I ^HERE are thirteen reported species of Cypripcdiiiin in 



the : ■ r' ef North America, but the eight 



species I'f :oc . v.^./ooic rc;c:'"n are very cliiterent from the fii-e 

 species ft und in rhe regi n west of the Rocky ^lountain Di- 

 vide. In fact, it is beheved that onr eastern Cyprlpcdiuiiis 

 are mi;n-e cL'sely alhed to those of northern Europe, and 

 northern Asia, than to the species of the Rocky ^Mountain 

 boglands. Six of onr Athantic region species are reported 

 for the Xew England States, vdiile only a single species is 

 found in ]\Iexico and Panama — a region often known as the 

 "orchid-hunters' paradise." 



B :)tanists differ widely in their reported list of Cypripcd'uun 

 species for the world ; ^lessrs. Bentham and Hooker of Eng- 

 land, in I'^So. named only forty species; Hooker and Jackson, 

 in 1S93, listed hfty-seven species in the "Kew Index": and 



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