lady's-slipper

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.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

The most beautiful is the showy lady's-slipper (_Cypripedium spectabile_), whose large, pink and white flowers rival in beauty many of the choicest tropical orchids.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

From a profusion of wild flowers I especially remark the moccasin-flower or stemless lady's-slipper.

Memories and Anecdotes Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 1915

Like the ivy, the yellow lady's-slipper does not poison every one.

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

Growing in bogs and low woods from Maine to Minnesota and Washington, southward to Georgia and Missouri, there is a sweet-scented, little yellow-and-brown flower called the yellow lady's-slipper, the plant of which is said to have the same effect when handled as poison-ivy.

On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888

You could have knocked me down with a lady's-slipper.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885

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.

The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

I usually find it and the fringed polygala in bloom at the same time; the lady's-slipper is a little later.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" --

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879