Wild Flowers Worth Notice for Their Beauty Associations Or Uses
Wild Flowers Worth Notice for Their Beauty Associations Or Uses
Phebe Lankester
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Nasturtium is a name given to all these biting plants, each being a nasus tortus, or nose-twitcher. Pliny records that they put the nose into convulsions. Long ago the refreshing nature of these plants as food was recognized, and there is a Greek proverb, " Eat cress to learn more wit. " Knowing, as we now do, the influence of the physical over the mental, we can rationally understand the proverb. There are several other species of Nasturtium native in England the Creeping Cress, N. Sylvestre o...r N. Palustre ; the Water-rocket, N. Terrestre ; and the Water- radish, N. Amphibium. 22 WILD FLOWERS. THE ROCK ROSE, OR ROCK CIST. HELIANTHEMUM VULGARE. OUR next plant belongs to a new family Cistaceae. The characters of the order are that the species are shrubs or herbs with opposite, or in a few exotic species, alternate, leaves, with or without stipules, generally smelling fragrantly. The petals are usually five in number, broadly spreading, the sepals three, nearly equal, overlapping each other in the bud, with or without two smaller outer ones.
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