"Oxalis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me so many many years ago. Yet the miracles are greater now than they were then. They have more meaning. Now are they part of some great order. They are not separate. Without moving my feet, I lay my hands on apples, Virginia creeper, asparagus, marigold, sweet sultan, oxalis, plantain, crab-grass, white clover, all growing securely in one place, and everyone like unto itself alone. Here is the everlasting miracle before my eyes, and all miracles are mysteries. Once I thought I should understand such ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
... in her music. Moreover, there is much in time and circumstance. You hear a song in the village street, and pass along unmoved; but stand in the silence of the forest, with your feet in a bed of creeping snowberry and oxalis, and the same song goes to ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey
... it did for me so many many years ago. Yet the miracles are greater now than they were then. They have more meaning. Now are they part of some great order. They are not separate. Without moving my feet, I lay my hands on apples, Virginia creeper, asparagus, marigold, sweet sultan, oxalis, plantain, crab-grass, white clover, all growing securely in one place, and everyone like unto itself alone. Here is the everlasting miracle before my eyes, and all miracles are mysteries. Once I thought I should understand such things when I was "grown up," ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey
... plants which habitually produce several forms, as with certain butterflies described by Mr. Wallace, in which three female forms and {400} the male exist, or as with the trimorphic species of Lythrum and Oxalis, gemmules capable of reproducing several widely-different forms must be latent in ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... *Berberis! *Papaver! *Chelidonium! Sanguinaria. Podophyllum. *Mathiola! *Cheiranthus! *Iberis! *Cardamine! *Hesperis. *Barbarea! *Sinapis! *Brassica! *Helianthemum! *Viola! *Dianthus! *Saponaria! *Lychnis! *Silene! *Sagina! *Hibiscus! *Althaea! *Malva! AEsculus! *Geranium! *Pelargonium. *Tropaeolum! Oxalis! *Impatiens! *Camellia! Thea! Trifolium! Medicago! *Ulex! Spartianthus. Clitoria. Pisum! Orobus! Genista! Spartium! Cytisus! Anthyllis. Coronilla. Lotus! *Rosa! *Kerria! *Spiraea! *Fragaria! *Potentilla! *Crataegus! Cydonia. *Pyrus! Eriobotrya! ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters |
