DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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ruptly contracted into a claw-like base; the lamellae a pair 
of short projections. The branched and toothed, coral-like 
rootstock is used. FI. May-June. Collect in July. 
Goodyera pubescens, R. Br. Net-leaf Plantain. A tender 
perennial with strongly white-reticulated leaves, and numer- 
ous crowded flowers on a scape 6-12' high. Flower irregular; 
tip of the globular lip very short ; gland-bearing beak of the 
stigma very short. Root of thick fibres, from a somewhat 
fleshy, creeping rootstock. Mountains of East Tennessee. 
Frequent. Collect in autumn. Eli Lilly’s Catalogue. 
Cypripedium pubescens, Willd. Larger Yellow Lady’s-slip- 
per. Showy plant, stem 2° high, pubescent, as are also the 
broadly oval acute leaves. Two of the sepals united into one 
under the lip, sepals elongated-lanceolate ; lip flattened lat- 
erally, very convex and gibbous above, 1 . 2 - 2 ' long, pale yel- 
low. Stem leafy to the top, 1-3 flowered. Rich soil in the 
woods of Middle and East Tennessee. FI. May. The rhi- 
zome is used. 
•Cypripedium parviflorum, Salisb. Smaller Yellow Lady’s- 
SLIPPER. Stem 1-2° high ; leaves oval, pointed ; sepals 
ovate or ovate lanceolate ; lip flattish from above, bright 
yellow, 1' long or less; sterile stamen 3-angular. Flower 
fragrant; sepals and petals brown-purple. FI. May-June. 
Throughout the State, but nowhere in large numbers. Hills 
around Nashville. The rhizome, with rootlets. Collect in 
autumn. 
HiEMODORACEfE. (Bloodwort Family.) 
Aletris farinosa, L. Star-Grass. Colic-Root. Perennial 
and smooth stemless herb, very bitter, with fibrous roots and 
and a spreading cluster of thin and flat lanceolate leaves; 
the small flowers in a wand-like spiked raceme, terminating 
a naked, slender scape 2-3° high. Perianth cylindrical, 
wrinkled and roughened outside by thickly-set points, which 
look like scurfy mealiness, the tube cohering with the base 
only of the ovary, 6-cleft at the summit. Stamens 6, insert- 
