Word: cypripedium
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Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through the plate glass of a Fifth Avenue florist's window...
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Botanical Section.- Meeting this evening at 9 o'clock in 48 Ware Hall. Mr. Oakes Ames will give a paper upon "The Genus Cypripedium-its variations and Hybrids," illustrated by living specimens and water color paintings...
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