c Character._

Nectarium ventricosum, inflatum, cavum.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CYPRIPEDIUM _acaule_ radicibus fibrosis, foliis oblongis
radicalibus. _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 303._

HELLEBORINE _Calceolus_ dicta, mariana, foliis binis e radice ex
adverso prodeuntibus, flore purpureo _Pluk. Mant. 101; t. 418. f.
1._

CYPRIPEDIUM _humile_--Corolla labio superiore rhomboideo acuminato
lateribus deflexo subtus carina angustissima obtusa, inferiore
petalis longiore antice fisso. _Transact. Linn. Soc. V. 1. p. 76.
t. 3. f. 4._

We have not figured the present species of Cypripedium so much on
account of its beauty as of its rarity, for it is far less handsome than
any of the other species that we are acquainted with.

It is a native of different parts of North-America, and flowers with us
in May.

There is little difficulty in distinguishing it from the other foreign
species, it has rarely more than two radical leaves, a very short
flowering stem compared with the others, a large nectary in proportion
to its size, which in the specimens we have seen has been divided on its
upper part, through its whole length, so as in fact to destroy in a
great degree that shoe or slipper-like form, from which this genus has
taken its name.

Like the rest of the family, it requires a little extraordinary care in
its culture; its roots should be placed in a pot filled with loam and
bog-earth, or rotten leaves, well mixed, and plunged in a north border,
where in severe seasons it will be proper to shelter it; if the whole
border be formed of the same soil or compost the pot will be less
necessary.

Our drawing was made from a plant growing with Messrs. GRIMWOOD and Co.
Kensington.

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NARCISSUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS. NARROW-LEAVED NARCISSUS.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Petala_ 6 aequalia. _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo.
_Stamina_ intra nectarium.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

NARCISSUS _poeticus_ spatha uniflora, nectario rotato brevissimo
scarioso crenulato. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 317._
_Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 414._

NARCISSUS uniflorus, foliis ensiformibus, scypho brevissimo. _Hall.
Hist. n. 1250._

NARCISSUS albus circulo purpureo. _Bauh. Pin. p. 48._ _Magnol. Bot.
Monsp. p. 181._

NARCISSUS poeticus medio purpureus.