Excerpt: ...deeply cut like fringe. Both species may be found in bloom at the same time, offering an opportunity for comparison to the confused novice. Now, tiarella, meaning a little tiara, and mitella, a little miter, refer, of course, to the odd forms of their seed-cases; but all of us are not gifted with the imaginative eyes of Linnaeus, who named the plants. Xenophon's assertion that the royal tiara or turban of the Persians was encircled with a crown helps us no more to see what Linnaeus saw in the one case than the ...
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Excerpt: ...deeply cut like fringe. Both species may be found in bloom at the same time, offering an opportunity for comparison to the confused novice. Now, tiarella, meaning a little tiara, and mitella, a little miter, refer, of course, to the odd forms of their seed-cases; but all of us are not gifted with the imaginative eyes of Linnaeus, who named the plants. Xenophon's assertion that the royal tiara or turban of the Persians was encircled with a crown helps us no more to see what Linnaeus saw in the one case than the fact that the papal miter is encircled by three crowns helps in the other. And as for the lofty, two-peaked cap worn by bishops in the Roman Church, a dozen plants, with equal propriety, might be said to wear it. CAROLINA GRASS OF PARNASSUS (Parnassia Caroliniana) Saxifrage family Flowers - Creamy white, delicately veined with greenish, solitary, 1 in. broad or over, at the end of a scape 8 in. to 2 ft. high, 1 ovate leaf clasping it. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; corolla of 5 spreading, parallel veined petals; 5 fertile stamens alternating with them, and 3 stout imperfect stamens clustered at base of each petal; 1 very short pistil with 4 stigmas. Leaves: From the root, on long petioles, broadly oval or rounded, heart-shaped at base, rather thick. Preferred Habitat - Wet ground, low meadows, swamps. Flowering Season - July-September. Distribution - New Brunswick to Virginia, west to Iowa. What's in a name? Certainly our common grass of Parnassus, which is no grass at all, never starred the meadows round about the home of the Muses, nor sought the steaming savannas of the Carolinas. The European counterpart (P. palustris), fabled to have sprung up on Mount Parnassus, is at home here only in the Canadian border States and northward. At first analysis one is puzzled by the clusters of filaments at the base of each petal. Of what use are they? We have seen in the case of the beard-tongue and the turtle-head that even imperfect stamens sometimes serve...
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48 Illustrations in Full Color. Very Good. No Dustjacket. Previous Owner Stamp. 6 x 9" Very good hardcover; beautifully illustrated; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED;
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition thus. 8vo. Cloth. 270 p. 48 illustrations in full color plus line drawings. Adapted by Asa Don Dickinson from "Nature's Garden. Part of the Nature Library, this charming guide to the wildflowers is accompanied by full page color plates. Lettering and decoration on boards faded. Only minor edgewear. Owner's name. Near fine.
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