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1. C. stem leafy ; lobe of the style triangular-ob- pubescens. 
‘ long, obtuse ; exterior petals ovate-oblong, acu- 
- minate, interior very long, linear, contorted ; 
‘ lip compressed, shorter than the petals. —Filld. 
__C. flavescens, Redout. pl. liliac. 
_C. Calceolus, 6. Sp. Pl. 1346. 
C. Calceolus, Walt. 
Icon. Willd. hort. berol. 1. t. 15. 
Large yellow Ladies’-slipper. 
About fifteen inches high. Flowers large, yellow. In the 
shady hills bordering the Schuylkill above the falls, west side, 
very scarce. I have not found it elsewhere. Perennial. May. 
2. C. scape leafless, one-flowered; radical leaves humile. 
a pair, oblong-obtuse ; lobe of the style subro- 
tund-rhomboid, acuminate, deflexed; lip longer 
than the lanceolate petals, with a fissure behind. 
—Willd. 
 C. acaule, Ait. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 192. Salisb. in Lin. trans. 1. 
t. 3. f. 4. Catesby. Car. app. t. 3. 
Purple Ladies’-slipper. Moccassin-flower. 
About eight or ten inches high, with two large bluish- 
n pubescent radical leaves, and a scape bearing a single 
ower, with a large globose pendulous nectary. In boggy 
grounds of Jersey, and in rich woods; common. Perennial. 
May, June. 
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ORDER III. HEXANDRIA. 
342, ARISTOLOCHIA. Gen. pl. (Aristolochie.) 
Calix none. Corolla of 1 petal, ligulate, with 
a ventricose base. Capsule 6-celled, many- 
seeded, inferior.—V‘utt. 


