3. Calypso Salisb, 
Low herb with a single basal leaf arising directly from a small corm 
with coral-like roots. Stem simple, sheathed by several scale-like leaves, 
Flowers solitary, terminal, droopinge Sepals and petals equal, distinct, 
similar, crect or arching over the sac-like tip. Golumn petal-like 
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bearing a single anther. Pollen masses 2, WEXYs (Cytherea Salisb, ). 
1. C. bulbosa (L.) Oakes. Calypso. Leaf 2,5-3 em. long, broadly elliptical 
or suborbicular, glabrous, the veins prominent beneath; scale leaves 
membranous, commonly 3; sepals and petals 1,5-2,5 cm. long, narrowly 
lanceolate, acute, rose-color with three veins; lin 1.5-2 cm. long, 
bearing 3 ridges at the anterior end which are pilose with stiffish 
hairs, dilated anteriorly, the saucer-shaped dilation purple=svotted, 
the sac purple-striped within, prolonged below into two blunt prongs; 
stamineal column hooded, rose-purple, 10-12 m, tall; capsules l cm. long. 
Moist shaced woods, infrequent, 
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