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DAISIES |
Common flowers |
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PERICLINIUM |
The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in
composite flowers. |
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DOG-ROSE |
A common European wild rose, with single pink or white
flowers. |
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STELLATED |
Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common
center; as, stellate flowers. |
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MILFOIL |
A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white
flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. |
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RECEPTACLE |
The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common
support to a head of flowers. |
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ROSEBAY |
An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers,
common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb. |
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LADY'S BEDSTRAW |
The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a
slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white
flowers in umbels. |
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LINDEN |
A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light
yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. |
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HYACINTH |
A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing
beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common
variety. |
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GOLDEN-ROD |
A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow
flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the
species of the genus Solidago. |
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WALLFLOWER |
A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri),
with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and
deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls. |
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CONVOLVULUS |
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers,
including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the
morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
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MULLEIN |
Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs
having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common
species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus. |
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UNILATERAL |
Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral
raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or
are all turned to one side. |
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CORYMB |
A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own
footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the
outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. |
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DAY LILY |
...ng true
lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common
species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange
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FURZE |
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful
yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain;
-- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus. |
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SCABIOUS |
Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species
of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have
similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected. |
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HYDRANGEA |
A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and
large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H.
hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan. |
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NIGHTSHADE |
A common name of many species of the genus Solanum,
given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching
weed with small whi... |
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FUCHSIA |
...uth America. Double-flowered
varieties are now common in cultivation. ... |
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PETUNIA |
A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or
salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia
violacera, with reddish ... |
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IVY |
A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its
leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed;
the flowers... |
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FUMITORY |
The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria,
annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small
flowers in dense... |