﻿Hall Paik: Dr. Mari vn. — Yorkshire ; In the Helk’s Wood by Ingleborough : 

 Rayt^-Mt. D. Turner informs us, in the Botanist’s Guide, v. ii. p. 712, that 

 this plant was not to be found in Helk’s Wood when he was at Ingleton in 1796 ; 

 and Mr. Woodward also says, that he searched for it in vain in Helk’s Wood, 

 a gardener of Ingleby having eradicated every plant. Woods about Clapham 

 and Ingleton: Hudson. Woods and hilly pastures in the neighbourhood of 

 Kilsey : Mr. W. Curtis. Woods about Kilsey Crag, Wharfdale : Mr. Wood. 

 About Arnrliffe, 1 itten, and Kettlewell : Mr. Knowi.ton. Dr. Hooker, in 

 company with the Rev. James Dalton and Mr. Joseph Woods, gathered it, 

 in flower, near Arncliffe, in June, 1808. Between Ingleton and Chappel in the 

 Dale, 1800: Mr. Brunton. 



Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 



Root thick, of a brownish colour, creeping horizontally, and 

 throwing out many, fleshy, long, simple fibres. Stem solitary, from 

 9 to 12 or 18 inches high, leafy, solid, striated, and downy. Leaves 

 large, alternate, egg-shaped, entire, rather pointed, a little downy, 

 somewhat waved about the margin, clasping or sheathing the stem 

 at the base. Flowers terminal, usually solitary, rarely two together, 

 nodding, large and showy. Sepals ribbed, an inch and a half long, 

 of a rich dark-brown colour ; the two lowermost combined. Petals 

 of the same colour, rather longer and narrower than the sepals, and 

 slightly wavy. Lip (labellwm) large, inflated, curved, rounded at 

 the bottom, the edges contracled, yellow, wrinkled, reticulated with 

 veins, internally spotted, about an inch long, bearing a slight re- 

 semblance to a little shoe or slipper, and hence the trivial name. 

 Lady's Slipper. Column (see fig. 1.) short, yellow, expanded at 

 the apex into an oblong, petal-like lobe or appendage, ( superior lip 

 of Authors; sterile stamen of Brown), with 2 angles, more or less 

 blunt at the ba3e ; the extremity rounded, with a short indexed 

 point ; yellow, spotted with red. Filaments (see fig. 3) 2, lateral, 

 yellow, narrow-wedge-shaped, a little curved. Anthers (see figs. 

 2 & 3) orbicular, hemispherical, marginate, 2-celled, fixed near the 

 middle to the inferior part of the filaments. Germen inferior, 

 curved, tapering below, pubescent. Style (see figs. 1, 2, and 3) 

 affixed to the base of the lobes of the column, large, somewhat egg- 

 shaped, on a short footstalk. Capsule (fig. 4.) upright, about an 

 inch long, somewhat prism-shaped, with 3 flat sides, and 3-ribbed 

 angles ; within having 3 longitudinal, parietal, seminiferous re- 

 ceptacles. 



“ Our British Flora,” says Dr. Hooker, in his very beautiful and splendid 

 Flora Londinensis, “ can boast very few plants indeed superior in beauty of 

 form and colour, or in singularity of appearance, to the Cypripedium Calce'o- 

 lus, which consequently, like the O'rchis hircina, Cy'clamen europee'um, 

 and many other species of showy exterior, but rare occurrence, are objects of 

 constant search by gardeners and cultivators, and likely soon to add to the num- 

 ber of those which have been natives of our isle.” 



According to Mr. Graves, in FI. Lond. “ to succeed in the cultivation of 

 this beautiful plant, it is necessary in transplanting to remove the root with as 

 large a portion of earth as can be made to adhere to it. It may then be plunged 

 in a mixture of loam and peat earth, in a situation where it may only receive the 

 morning sun ; and in Winter it should be protected with a quantity of moss or 

 dead leaves thickly strown over it; or, if in a pot, may be sheltered by a frame, 

 during the severest frost.” — 1 have heard of a peasant in the North of England, 

 who propagated this plant for sale, very successfully, by planting it under the 

 shade of his gooseberry trees ; and the finest plants 1 have seen, are in the garden 

 of the Rev. Dr. Bridges, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where 

 they have flourished and increased, for several years, under some shrubs which 

 screen them from the sun till the afternoon. 



