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One-Flowered Cancer-Root

Aphyllon uniflorum. Broom-Rape Family.

Scape--Slender; fleshy; three to five inches high; one-flowered. Leaves.--None. Flower.--Pale purple; solitary; one inch long; with a delicate fragrance. Calyx.--Five-cleft. Corolla.--Somewhat two-lipped; with two yellow bearded folds in the throat. Stamens.--Four. Pistil.--One. In April and May the odd pretty flower of the parasitic one-flowered cancer-root is found in the damp woodlands.