48 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cypripemum. 
( E. Bot. 437. E.) —FI Dan. 345— Hall. 42. ii. at p. 157 —Clus. i. 273. 2— 
Ger. Em. U2—Park. 218. 8— J. B. iii. 517. 1— H. Ox. xii. 11. 5—Ger. 
358. 3. 
{Stem a foot high, pubescent. Leaves embracing the stem. Germen 
slender. E.) Flozvers purplish red, five or six, in a loose spike. 
(Purple Helleborine. S. rubra. Linn. Epipaciis rubra. Br. Sw. 
Willd. Sin. E.) Thickets on the sides of mountains. About Clapham 
and Ingleton, Yorkshire. On a steep stony bank, sloping.to the south on 
Hampton Common, Gloucestershire. Mr. Smith. FI. Brit. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward, in Bot. Guide. E.) ' P. June. 
CYPRIPE'DIUM.* Nectary ventricose, inflated, hollow, 
(petals spreading. E.) 
C. calce'olus. Boots fibrous: leaves egg-spear-shaped; those on the 
stem alternate: (upper lip oval, channelled. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Loud. E.)— Hall. 43. at ii.jt?. 157— Gmel. i. 1— Mill. 242 -Clus. 
i. 272— Dad. 180. 2— Lob. Ic. i. 312. 2— Ger . Em. 443. 2— II. Ox. xii. 
11. 14— J. B. iii. 518— Dod. 180. 1— Ger. Em. 443. T— Bark. 217. 3—■ 
Ger. 359 —Pet. 70. 4. 
{Stem upright, undivided, nine to twelve inches high, single-flowered, 
rarely with two. Leaves embracing the stem, very slightly fleshy, stri¬ 
ated. The Flower terminal, nearly sessile, nutant, large, and beautiful, 
E.) Petals four, disposed crosswise, purple, slightly downy, with pa- 
rellel veins : the upper broader, the two lateral ones narrower, the fourth 
the shortest, projecting over the opening of the lip. Lip curved, rounded 
at the bottom, the edges contracted, (fancifully compared to a little shoe 
or slipper, and hence the trivial name; E.) pale yellow, marked within 
with deep hirsute lines. Capsule upright, about an inch long, somewhat 
prism-shaped, with three flat sides, and three ribbed angles. Woodw. 
scabrous. E.) 
Lady’s Slipper. {Calceolus Maries. Bay. E.) Woods and thickets, rare. 
Woods in Lancashire; and Helk’s Wood, by Ingleborough, Yorkshire. 
Bay. Woods about Clapham and Ingleton, Y orkshire. Hudson. Woods 
and hilly pastures in the neighbourhood of Kilnsay, Yorkshire. Curtis. 
Woods about Kilsey Crag, Wharfdale, Yorkshire. Mr. Wood. I 
searched for it in vain in Helk’s Wood, a gardener of Ingleby having 
eradicated every plant. Mr. Woodward. The north branch of Castle 
Eden Dean, Durham. Mr. Robson. Borough Hall Park, Lancashire. 
Martyn. Bot. Guide. Castle Eden Dean; on rocks not far from the 
sea: a different habitat from Mr. Robson’s; Mr. Winch, who states 
that it is not found at Warm-shades, near Keswick, as reported by 
Hutton. E.) I*. July.f 
* (From xu7rp/f, Venus; and 7 t.o 8 iov, a slipper; the nectary somewhat resembling a 
shoe in form, and in texture being sufficiently delicate for the attire of a goddess. E.) 
f (The singular structure, and peculiar elegance of this plant, render it a desirable 
acquisition for the flower garden ; the more so since the indiscreet zeal of simplers to 
possess this beautiful rarity, and the ravages of certain gardeners, impelled by filthy 
iucre, have nearly exhausted several of its favourite haunts. It is not easily propagated, 
but may be increased by parting the roots, which flourish most in bog earth and decaj^ed 
leaves, and should not be often removed. By the English name it would appear that 
the piety of Romish devotees had transferred the slipper from the heathen deity to the 
Virgin Mary. E.) 
