In the sandy soil, grew the purple-flowered CHLOANTHES. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
We found on the banks of this river, a purple-flowered CALANDRINIA, previously unknown. 44 Lat. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
He watched her, then grabbed a handful of grass and purple-flowered alfalfa and pulled it out by the roots. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
We saw, this day, plants of PYCNOSORUS GLOBOSUS, in the dry forest land; and the purple-flowered RUELLIA AUSTRALIS. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
The grass in many of the hollows was almost high enough to cut with a scythe, and its green expanse was patched with purple-flowered weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
Ahead of him the path took a sharp angle which was masked by a small group of purple-flowered shrubs, somewhat higher than most of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
A characteristic showy tree of this region is the purple-flowered Physocalymma scaberrima, a hardwood timber tree with red wood popular in making furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Madeira-Tapajós moist forests] Reference
A characteristic emergent tree of this ecoregion is the purple-flowered Physocalymma scaberrim, a hardwood timber tree with red wood popular in making furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Purus-Madeira moist forests] Reference
Conspicuous are the aromatic narrow-leaved white-flowered Labrador-tea Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens and, on richer drier soils, the purple-flowered Lapland rose-bay Rhododendron lapponicum. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
Warm and deliciously fragrant, it swept the stiff wet Bermuda grass upon the lawn of the Sherrill villa at Palm Beach, rustled the crimson hedge of hibiscus, caught the subtle perfume of jasmine and oleander and swept on to a purple-flowered vine on the white walls of the villa, a fuller, richer thing for the ghost-scent of countless flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
With the peaceful flow of the river murmuring in the air and the hum of insects in the purple-flowered alfalfa, the tragic scene seemed to rise again and impressed its lesson, -- the ethical lesson of apparent defeat, disaster, and death in the outer and temporal world, while, on the spiritual side, it was triumph and glory and the entrance to the life more abundant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Sumichrast, who was our guide, had to open a passage for us through a perfect net-work of purple-flowered creepers. From Wordnik.com. [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference
Dunwich Heath, a wild, purple-flowered conservation area, is a fitting place to mull natural destruction while gazing at the North Sea. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
These latter seeds yielded purple-flowered plants like their father; whilst the pale brown seeds yielded normal red-flowered plants; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
The purple-flowered plant grew luxuriantly in the fields of Virginia, and so through the labor of the poor men the indolent cavaliers became rich. From Wordnik.com. [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference
Beans are ornamental enough to be grown in flower borders, particularly the purple-flowered dark-leaved French bean 'Blauhilde' and the new red-and-white-flowered runner 'St George'. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
On the banks of the Ganges, the larger, white-flowered, sub-arboreous species prevailed; in the interior, and along my whole previous route, the smaller purple-flowered kind only was seen. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
The large white-flowered Henryi and purple-flowered Jackmani Clematis, though of slow growth, should always have a place, either about a veranda, a summer-house or a trellis, for the sake of their beautiful flowers. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Hardy Garden] Reference
The seeds of each plant were collected and sown separately, those of the nearest gave up to 5 or 6 hybrids from the seeds of one parent, while those of the farthest gave only one purple-flowered plant for each parent. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Little euphorbias, peperomias, and other succulent plants, have taken the place of the cryptogamous tribes; and evergreen shrubs, rhexias, and purple-flowered melastomas, form verdant isles amid desert and rocky plains. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Taken together, these new concepts explained why crossbreeding pea plants that have purple flowers (a dominant factor) with plants that have white flowers (a recessive factor) yields plants with three-fourths of them purple-flowered and only one-fourth white-flowered. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Many a time have I heard the simple song of Roger M'Cann, coming from the top of brown Dunroe, mellowed, by the stillness of the hour, to something far sweeter to the heart than all that the labored pomp of musical art and science can effect; or the song of Katty Roy, the beauty of the village, streaming across the purple-flowered moor. From Wordnik.com. [The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
He regarded him as he lay in his purple-flowered pyjamas on the freshly-made hospital bed. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
(In california it turns roadsides purple in flowers - all these are not faba, but other wild purple-flowered Vetches. From Wordnik.com. [translation for peas & greenbeans (nfm)] Reference
A little fountain shot upward a thin stream, which broke into a diamond shower and fell plashing back into a pool whose rim was outlined by a circle of purple-flowered iris. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories] Reference
A broad-winged hawk in lesser circles wheels and flings its piercing cry far down to me; a fat, dozy woodchuck sticks his head out and eyes me kindly from his burrow; and close over me, as if I too had grown and blossomed there, bends a rank, purple-flowered ironweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of Hingham] Reference
Enjoy some other pictures of: 1) Beibei blue skies 2) Devon and Phil's Macaroni & Cheese Adventure (prepared while watching "Reality Bites" because on that specific day we were feeling excessively Gen. X) 3) Pictures taken by a student after interviewing me for a school newspaper in front of a beautiful purple-flowered tree (thumbs up, as you will notice, is my calling card) 4) And of course plenty of vanity!. From Wordnik.com. [Runnin' the Great Wall...] Reference
A purple-flowered Amaryllis. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
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