. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Cypripedium parvifldrum Salisb. Yellow or Downy Ladies'-slipper. Fig. 1358- C. parviflorum Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1: 77. 1791. C. pubescens Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 143. 1805. Stems leafy, l°-2l" high. Leaves oval or elliptic, 2'-6' long, 1F-3' wide, acute or acumi- nate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, usually longer than the lip, yellowish or greenish, striped
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 5. Cypripedium parvifldrum Salisb. Yellow or Downy Ladies'-slipper. Fig. 1358- C. parviflorum Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1: 77. 1791. C. pubescens Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 143. 1805. Stems leafy, l°-2l" high. Leaves oval or elliptic, 2'-6' long, 1F-3' wide, acute or acumi- nate ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, usually longer than the lip, yellowish or greenish, striped with purple; petals narrower, usually twisted; lip much inflated, 8"-2' long, pale yellow with pur- ple lines; its interior with a tuft of white joint- ed hairs at the top; sterile stamen triangular; stigma thick, somewhat triangular, incurved. In woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, Alabama and Nebraska. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. Consists of several races, differing mainly in the size of the. flowers. Whip- poor-will's shoe. Yellows. Slipper-root. Indian shoe. Yellow moccasin-flower. Noah's-ark. Ducks. American valerian. May-July. 2. FISSIPES Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 311. 1903. Acaulescent herbs, with fleshy-fibrous roots and glandular-pubescent foliage. Leaves 2, basal; blades ample, plaited, spreading. Scape simple. Flower usually solitary. Perianth irregular. Sepals greenish, narrowed upward. Lateral petals about as long as the sepals, linear, greenish. Lip a large drooping inflated sac with a closed fissure down its whole length in front. Column declined, glandular-pubescent, bearing a sessile anther on each side, and a rhomboidal glandular-pubescent sterile stamen above. Stamens spreading, the free tips at right angles to the column. Pollen granular, without glands or tails. Stigma broadest at the apex. Capsule ascending. [Latin, in allusion to the cleft lip.] A monotypic genus of eastern North America. i. Fissipes acaulis (Ait.) Small. Moc-
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