Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
You could have knocked me down with a lady's-slipper. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
In some moods, at least, I go with the partridge-berry vine and the lady's-slipper. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
From a profusion of wild flowers I especially remark the moccasin-flower or stemless lady's-slipper. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference
I usually find it and the fringed polygala in bloom at the same time; the lady's-slipper is a little later. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers] Reference
The mocassin flower or lady's-slipper (mark the odd coincidence between the common name of the American and English species) is one of our most remarkable flowers; both on account of its beauty and its singularity of structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
Purple lady's-slipper (CYPRIPEDIUM. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
It makes a pet of one of our oddest, brightest, and showiest flowers, the pink lady's-slipper, and by some means or other has enticed it away from the peat bog, where it surely should be growing, along with the calopogon, the pogonia, and the arethusa, and here it is, like some rare exotic, thriving in a bed of sand and on a mat of brown needles. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
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