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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Chap. 112. Of our Ladies Slipper. 
<|f ThcDefcripion. 
1 /^\Vr Ladies Shooor Slipper hath a thicke knobbed root, withcertaine marks or notes 
vpon the fame, fuch as the roots of Solomons Seale haue, but much lelTer, creeping 
, . w ,thin the vpper cruft of the earth : from which rifeth vp a ftiffe and hairy ftalke a 
foot high, fet by certaine fpaceswith faire broad leaufis, ribbed with the like iinevvesor nerues as 
thofe ot the Plantaine. At the top of the ftalke grovveth one (ingle floure, feldome two,fafhioned 
on the one fide like an egge • on the other fide it is open, empty, and hollow, and of the forme of a 
ftioo or flipper, whereof it tooke his name; of a yellow colour on theoutfide, and of a fliining 
deepe yellow on the infide. The middle part is compafled about with foure leaues ofa bright pur- 
pie eolQur, often ofa light red orobfcurecrimfon;, and fometimes yellow as in the middle part 
which in fhape is like an egge, as aforefaid. 
* 2 This other differs not from the former, vnlefle in the colour of the floure ; which in this 
hath the foure long leaues w hire, and the hollow leafe or flipper of a purple colour, f 
I Cdceolm CM aria, 
r ' ^ .OUr Ladies Slippei 
f 2 Caleeoltts Marin alter. 
. , The other Ladies Slipper, 
dxA fi'd/p " 
•ff The Place'. 
Ladies Slipper groweth vpon the mountains of Germany, Hungary, and Poland. I haue a plant 
thereof in my garden, which I receiued from Mb Garret Apothecary, my very good friend. 
, , ^ Lis alfc reported to grow in the North parts of this kinadome ; and I law it in floure with 
M r . Tradefcant the la ft Sommer. * 
% The Time. 
It flourethabout the midft oflune. 
T . 'IT The Thames] 
r is commonly called Calceohts D. CMana, and Marianus : of fame, calceolus SaeerdotlstaS fame, 
^ Itvn P ro P er, y : * n Englifh, Our Ladies flioi or flipper : in the Germane congue,lgfa jfcf) 
»cijuetij,^apenfcoe« t and of fome, Damafomwn no! hum. 
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