The Yellow Lady's Slipper 



Clara Thomas, 

 Washington, D. C. 



"Rushes tilting their burnished spears 

 These are her courtly cavaliers 

 Heart of my heart, we forswear the Rose, 

 We have been where the lady slipper grows." 



— Clinton Scollard 'In the Heart of June' . 



The downy or yellow Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium pubescens, 

 which bears the pretty local name of "whip-poor-will shoe," 

 is closely related to the beautiful and interesting Lady's Slipper 

 of Europe, Cypripedium calceolus, the species on which Linnaeus 



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