Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air Was Yet Pure ..., volume 1
Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air Was Yet Pure ..., volume 1
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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poppy, is as bright and strong to-day as yesterday. . So that I can see exactly where the leaves > join or lap over each other ; and when I look down into the cup," find it to be composed of four leaves altogether, — two smaller, set within two larger, , 1.2. Thus far (and somewhat farther) I had written in Rome; but now, putting .my .work together in Oxford, a sudden doubt troubles me^ whether all ptoppies have two petals smaller "than the other two. Whereupon I take down an excellent little s...chool* book on botany — the best I've yet found, thinking to be told quickly ; and I find a great deal about opium; and," apropos of opium, that the juice of common celandine is of a bright orange colour; and I pause for a bewildered five minutes, wondering if a celandine is a poppy, and how niany petals it has : going on again — because I must, Without making up my mind, on either question— I am , told to " ob- serve the floral receptacle of the Californian "genus Esehscholtzia." Now I can't observe anything of the sort, and I don't want to ; and I wish California and all that's in it were at the deepest bottom of the Pacific.
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