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n. - Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of a particular genus having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup.

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  • The heather was in full blow, and in wet parts the ground white with parnassia.
  • The species are not identical, but closely analogous in aspect and physiognomy, as, marsh parnassia, and the prickly species of Ribes.
  • I saw a few plants anchored in the less crumbling parts of the steep-faced bosses and steps -- parnassia, potentilla, hedysarum, lutkea, etc. The lower, rough-looking...
  • Its banks are embossed with moss and grass and sedge well mixed with flowers -- daisies, larkspurs, solidagos, parnassia, potentilla, strawberry, etc. Small strips of...
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