This deceitful appearance is caused by a small plant resembling saxifrage, which is abundant, growing in large patches on a species of crumbling moss. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference
The ice-plant, which is also called a saxifrage, may now be seen in many a garden to which it has been brought from the Kerry mountains, and it is known as. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's Book of Saints] Reference
Raspberry leaves and saxifrage; something else I didn't recognize. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
I'm digging dozens of fist-sized holes, squeezing thyme and saxifrage into cracks. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Garden] Reference
I give you this bouquetof saxifrage sneezewortspurge ragged robinasphodel lords-and-ladies.''. From Wordnik.com. [Poems for a wedding] Reference
There are also numerous small herbaceous plants of the saxifrage family, some forming dense mats to the exclusion of other plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
There is an old tale to the effect that the saxifrage roots twine about rocks and work their way into them so that the rock itself splits. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Once Annabel came up with a spray of mountain saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
His present ambition is to grow every possible saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
On rocky cliffs we find plants of the saxifrage family every where. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
Willard a great profusion of the common saxifrage was waving in the fresh breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
There will be free tours of the ornamental gardens, nurseries and saxifrage garden. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Pride grows here, and so does another saxifrage very like it, which we call Saxifraga Geum. From Wordnik.com. [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference
The white stars of the saxifrage appeared in the woods; the white daisies were in the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Macleod of Dare] Reference
Some wood-paths are found sprinkled with dog-violets, saxifrage, and with purple heart's-ease. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
Doris brought in the first violets on the fifteenth, with a few wisps of saxifrage and ragged robin. From Wordnik.com. [Kit of Greenacre Farm] Reference
Then a little later came the violets, blue and white, anemones, sweet-william, columbine and saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers]
Then a little later came the violets, blue and white, anemones, sweet - william, columbine and saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
These gray ledges hold me by the roots, as they do the bayberry bushes, the sweet-fern, and the rock-saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference
From the rocks that look boldly up the loch the heather and the saxifrage reflect themselves in the still water. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
And then the path grew steeper and runnels of water dripped down the rocks, all covered with ferns and saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others] Reference
Breakstone and break-bones are straight translations of ` saxifrage 'and ` ossifrage' (or perhaps the other way 'round?). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
Caius turned as he knelt upon the grass, and, holding the emerald moss and saxifrage plants in his hand, looked up at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference
The ground was starred with wood-anemones, oxlips, violets, cuckoo-flowers, and in damp places with green-golden saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Combed Out] Reference
Only where tiny streams trickled and sang through rocks and shallow courses, grew ferns and the huge leaves of the saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
All three gazed at the pretty saxifrage, which was still fresh, and now shone in the light of the two lamps like a third luminary. From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
At Arles, indeed, I saw the little saxifrage blossoming on the steps of the Amphitheatre, and fruit-trees in flower amid the tombs. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
Then there was the white rock-saxifrage, that filled the crevices of the ledges with soft, tufty bloom like lingering snow-drifts, our. From Wordnik.com. [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference
The sides were plastered with a kind of viscous clay found in one of the ponds, and the top covered with tufts of the purple saxifrage. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1] Reference
Here bloom poppies, with dandelions, buttercups, and saxifrage, though to the best of my knowledge the flowers are all devoid of perfume. From Wordnik.com. [The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club] Reference
First, a little grass slope, covered with the prettiest flowers, rockrose and saxifrage, and thyme and basil, and all sorts of sweet herbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies] Reference
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