Moccasin Flower

She found a moccasin-flower beside a lichen-covered log. ❋ Unknown (1920)

From a profusion of wild flowers I especially remark the moccasin-flower or stemless lady's-slipper. ❋ Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 (1915)

Azalias and wild roses made its shrubbery, while pitcher-plant, moccasin-flower, gentians blue and white, with brilliant lobelias, were among the native blossoms that charmed the author's childhood and made this Three-Mile Point especially dear to him. ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)

Here were blood-root, moccasin-flower, hepatica, pitcher-plant, Jack-in-the-pulpit, and every other flower of the Limberlost that was in bloom or bore a bud presaging a flower. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

She sewed for all of them, looking womanly and unhurried, with a pink-veined moccasin-flower in her hair; while Brown, cooking and baking, rushed from tent to wood-pile, his sleeves turned back from his white, muscular arms. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

Gray's surmise, 188; sphinx-moth its only complement, 190; manner of carrying the pollen by sphinx-moth, 193; extracting the pollen with a pencil; length of the nectary, 196; purple-fringed, 198; ragged, 200; very exceptional provision, 201; yellow-spiked, 203; moccasin-flower; ladies'-slipper; ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)

The most common of the group, the _C. acaule_, most widely known as the moccasin-flower, whose large, nodding, pale crimson blooms we so irresistibly associate with the cool hemlock woods, will afford a good illustration. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)

Where there is irritation of the nerves, some of the articles in the class of anti-spasmodics may be combined with the bitters and teas, such as the moccasin-flower root, ginseng, asafoetida. &c. SECTION V. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

In all cases of this disease the powdered root of the moccasin-flower should be taken freely -- dose, a tea-spoonful of the powdered root ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

But when they become so severe as to weary and weaken the woman, they are to be relieved by the use of a tea of red raspberry leaves and moccasin-flower root, in which put a tea-spoonful of the anti-spasmodic tincture to each half tea-cupful; the dose should be repeated as often as circumstances require it. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

"moccasin-flower" is applied more or less indiscriminately to all species. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)