595 
QTNANDRiA DiANDRiA. Cypripedium. 
C. Calceolus y. Sp. pi. 1346. 
Icon, Bot. mag. 216. Pluk. mant. t. 418. f. 3. Moris, 
hist 3. 5. 12. t. 11./, 17. 
In low meadows and bogs, particularly in the mountain- 
ous tracts ; Canada to Carolina. %. May, June. v. v. 
From eighteen inches to three feet high. The plant in 
its foliage resembles Hellehorus viridis 5 the flowers 
are generally by tv/o, sometimes three, very large, the 
lower lip white with red veins, and crimson spots in- 
side. 
5. C. caule folioso, lobo styli orbiculato obtusiusculo, peta- 
lis 5. duobus inferioribus lineari*lanceolatis deflexis, 
lateralibus linearibus horizontalibus, supremo ovato- 
oblongo acuto, labeilo longitudine petalorum an- 
ti'ce obverse-conico saccato. — Ait. kew. ed. 2. tom. 5, 
In shady sphagnous woods, about Montreal, Canada. 
McKenzie. 11. May. v. v. Flower small, petals 
greenish-brown ; lower lip white, with crimson 
veins ; of a very singular structure, resembling at a 
front view a sheep's head, the two lateral petals form- 
ing the horns. The stem is pubescent, not a span 
high ; leaves smooth, in general alternately by four. 
It distinguishes itself very strongly from all the rest 
by having five petals, and by the singular structure of 
its lower lip. 
6. C, scapoaphyllo unifloro, foliis radicalibus geminis ob- 
longis obtusis, lobo styli subrotundo-rhombeo acumi- 
nato defiexo, labeilo petalis lanceolatis longiore antice 
fisso. Willd. sp. pi. 4. p. 144. 
C. acaule. Ait. kew. 3. p. l6\. 
Icon. Bot. mag. I92, Salish.in linn, trans. 1. t. 3.f. 4. 
Catesh. car. app. t. 3. Pluk. mant. t. 418. f. 1 . 
In shady rocky situations and on dry mountain bogs : 
Canada to Carolina. % . May, June. v. v. Not 
much above a span high ; flower purple, large. I have 
ob.served a white variety on the Broad-mountains, 
Pensylvania. The whole of this genus is known 
among the inhabitants by the name of Mocassim 
ploweCf or sometimes Ladies Slippers. 
Arietinum. 
hiimile. 
