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2, C. spectabihj or Red and White Ladies' Slip- 

 per, Female Nervine, &c. — Stem leafy, one or two 

 flowers white and rose colored, sepals oval and short 

 — Rare from New York to Louisiana. 



3. C candidumj or White Ladies' Slipper, White 

 TJmbil, &c. — Stem leafy, flower white, sepals longer 

 than the labellum — Rare in deep woods, Pennsylva- 

 nia to Ohio. 



The other succedanea may be Valeriana officinalis 



Humulus lupxdus or hops — Ulmusfulva — Jirnt- 

 ca Montana — Doronicum sp. — Ciinila mariana 

 Inula heleniuniy &c. 



Remarks — The Orchideous plants which have 

 long roots like the Cypripediiim^ appear to liave dif- 

 ferent properties from those which have round or 

 oval tubercles. The Goodytra is antiscrofulous. 



The Genus Cladorhiza or Corallorhiza^ which 

 has fleshy branched roots, has also active properties, 

 &c. The Habenaria Jimbriata has anthelmintic roots, 

 and the Hab orbiculaia is one of the Heal-alls or com- 

 mon Vulncraries. 



All the bulbs of our tubercular Orchideous are 

 more or less like Salep, Aphrodisiac and Uterine. 

 But one of them the Aplectrum hyemahy (called 

 formerly Cymbidium and Corallorhiza by other 

 Botanists,) commonly known by the vulgar name of 

 Adam and Eve, furnishes a kind of Glue, and has ac- 

 tive properties. A species of the same genus ^plec- 

 trum lutescens which grows in the Western States, 

 is said to be a powerful Uterine, employed by the In- 

 dian Women to procure abortion. 



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