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Impatiens   Listen
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Impatiens  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.






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"Impatiens" Quotes from Famous Books



... hortatibus adactum esse magis quam inductum; tum Cornelii Woerdeni conviciis et pudore quodam puerili fuisse retentum, cum intellegerem mihi hoc vitae genus haudquaquam aptum esse; nam non omnibus congruunt omnia. Ieiuniorum semper impatiens 20 fui, idque peculiari quadam corporis ratione. Semel excitatus e somno nunquam potui redormiscere nisi post horas aliquot. Ad literas tantum rapiebatur animus, quarum istic nullus usus, adeo ut non dubitem quin si in liberum aliquod ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

... for all the wonderful trouble which you have taken about the seeds of Impatiens, and on scores of other occasions. It in truth makes me feel ashamed of myself, and I cannot help thinking: "Oh Lord, when he sees our book he will cry out, is this all for which I have helped so ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... Patience Plant (Impatiens)—This old-fashioned but cheery flowered plant resembles the flowering begonias in looks and habit. It grows very rapidly and is one of the most indefatigable bloomers of all plants. Spring cuttings grown on will ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell

... Delphinium elatum! Corydalis tuberosa. *Viola odorata! hirta. Impatiens Balsamina. Clitoria Ternatea. Cytisus Laburnum! Trifolium repens! Lupinus polyphyllus! *Gloxinia, var. cult.! *Linaria vulgaris! spuria. Elatine. triphylla. aeruginea. triornithophora. pilosa. chalepensis. cymbalaria! ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters



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