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which is curved, strongly ribbed and glandular hairy; the 
large brown calyx is composed of two united sepals, the 
lip showy uC. 
ts oo a nes with darker lines, it is deeply split 
above with the aperture closed by the downward and inward 
curving of the sides; there are also minute short glandular hairs 
on the outside, but within - hairs are white and longer, becom- 
ing rigid and bent downward as they approach the anthers, 
sek: to attract and direct the movements of insect visitors 
come in search of nectar. When th ia reach the 
oe the two viscid sacs adhere to their backs and are thus 
carried off to some other flower, where they are a d against 
the roughly ane stigma and thus accomplish cross-fertiliza- 
tion. One sterile stamen is expanded into a heart-shaped bract, 
which is bent downward and inward covering the stigma an 
effectually preventing all exit, except by the apertures on each 
side of the anthers. The capsules when mature, are large, 
about I-1. s inches = and produce numerous small seeds, but 
they ar where vi abundant, as the showiness which 
insures (tits ee insects, defeats its eee through the 
siamese of children and some selfish older oo who pick 
all they can find no matter how few there may 
Cypr ecu acaule was named by Aiton in a Coie of the 
plants grown at Kew in 1789 from ee introduced by Wm 
Hamilton, Esq., in 1786, from North America. He cites Pluke- 
net’s figures and description published in 1769 who described 
it as ‘‘Helleborine Calceolus Mariae dicta Caroliniensis, bifolia.” 
Catesby in his Natural History of North Carolina in 1748 
figured it in colors and says of it: “This plant produces the most 
elegant flower of all the Helleborine tribe, and is in great esteem 
with the North American Indians for decking their hair, etc. 
They call it the Moccasin Flower, which also signifies in their 
language, a shoe or slipper.” 
It was formerly found in the wilder portions of Greater New 
York, on Staten Island and in Van Courtland Park, but is 
becoming extinct, on account of its showy flowers, which are 
