This elegant orchideous plant appears to have been intro- 
duced into our gardens from Newfoundland by Dr Witiiam 
Pitcairn, in 1777, and is found likewise to bea native of 
- North America, where its native places of growth extend from 
Canada to Pennsylvania. ‘mong a valuable collection of living 
plants, sent to our Botanic Garden from the neighbourhood of 
Montreal by Mr Kirpin, there were some roots of , this, which 
being placed in a large box, flowered beautifully under a common 
frame in the beginning of the month of June. Mr CLecuorn, 
of the same place, has been kind enough to supply us with dried 
specimens, exactly similar to those here figured ; but other in- 
dividuals which I have received from my friend Dr Boort, ga- _ 
thered in the neighbourhood of Boston, differ in having. a far 
larger and more densely crowded spike, yet (unlike almost every | 
other plant which I have received from that fertile country, 
where vegetation attains an unusually large and luxuriant size) 
with flowers not one-third of the size of the se In ry 
every other particular they appear to be the same. — 
We find that plants of Habenaria ‘Sibrigtt thrive ell 
in a mixture of peat and decayed vegetable mould. They are 
placed in the same box with the roots of Cypripedium specta- 
bile, which has likewise flowered with us this year in the cate 
est perfection. 
Fig. 1. Single flower, magnified. Fig. 2. Portion of the germen, with the 
column of fructification and spur (the petals being removed). Fig. 3. 
Single pollen-mass, removed from the cell.—All more or less magnified. 
