Here is the haunt of the lady-slipper, (_cypripedium_,) a shy, rare flower, like a little sack delicately veined, with a faint musky scent, and large-flapped leaves shading its flower. ❋ Various (N/A)
The willows do better; painted-cup, cypripedium, and the hollow stalks of span-broad white umbels, find a footing among their stems. ❋ Unknown (1903)
The last nest of this bird I found was while in quest of the pink cypripedium. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The large yellow cypripedium has a peculiar, heavy, oily odor. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
I had returned to the old home during a summer vacation of the State University, and, having made a beginning in botany, I was, of course, full of enthusiasm and ran eagerly to my beloved pogonia, calopogon, and cypripedium gardens, osmunda ferneries, and the lake lilies and pitcher-plants. ❋ John Muir (1876)
And there are several fine orchids, habenaria, and cypripedium, the latter very rare, once common in the Valley near the foot of Glacier ❋ John Muir (1876)
There are six native species of the cypripedium in this Eastern region, varying in shape and in color -- shades of white, yellow, crimson, and pink. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
The "column" (B) in the cypripedium is very distinctive, and from the front view is very non-committal. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
A strange etiquette this of the cypripedium, which speeds its parting guest with a sticky plaster smeared all over its back. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Catching our bee before he has a chance to escape with his generous floral compliments, we unceremoniously introduce him into another cypripedium blossom, to which, if he were more obliging, he would naturally fly. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Occasionally, however, as in the cypripedium and in certain of the arums, or "jack-in-the-pulpit," and aristolochias, the welcome becomes somewhat aggressive, the guest being forcibly detained awhile after tea, or, as in the case of our milkweed, occasionally entrapped for life. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Such, with slight modifications, is the plan evolved by the whole cypripedium tribe. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
(Fig. 18 B), thus insuring the cross-fertilizing of the flower, the bee receiving a fresh effusion of cypripedium compliments piled upon the first as he says "good-bye." ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Since that time, many years ago, I have often sat long and patiently in the haunt of the cypripedium awaiting a natural demonstration of its cross-fertilization, but as yet no insect has rewarded my devotion. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Another attaches similar tokens to the tongues of butterflies, while the cypripedium speeds its parting guest with a sticking-plaster smeared all over its back. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Nectar is secreted in the hollow of the lip indicated, somewhat as in the cypripedium. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
About twenty-five species of _cypripedium_ are known, belonging to the north temperate zone and reaching south into Mexico and northern India. ❋ Unknown (1865)
By now in Michelle Wan's orchids-in-Dordogne-themed crime fiction series, the quest for the never-seen cypripedium incognitum flower has taken on holy grail status for Julian Wood. ❋ Unknown (2010)
