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n. - Genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers.

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  • A Crucifera, a rhubarby sorrel, a Goodyera, and one or two grasses, were the only additional novelties met with.
  • After such names as these, ought we not to be thoroughly ashamed of appellations like Batschia, Schoberia, Buchnera, Goodyera, Brugmannsia, Heuchera, Scheuzeria,...
  • Walking through a wood, found hawk-wort and asters in bloom, also a handsome rattlesnake plantain, or Goodyera, with its veined leaves and fragrant spike of white...
  • Lycopodium complanatum, Goodyera repens, Vaccinium myrtilis, V. vitis - idaea, Linnaea borealis) including more than 100 species of arboreal origin.
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