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" ... and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does this rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it... "
Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain ... - Page 1099
by John Claudius Loudon - 1854 - 2694 pages
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Lachesis Lapponica: Or, A Tour in Lapland, Now First Published ..., Volume 1

Carl von Linné - Botany - 1811 - 396 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till, it withers away. Hence, as this...
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The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 7

Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...the abode of her vegetable resembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this...
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The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 7

Gardening - 1831 - 780 pages
...the abode of her vegetable resembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this...
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Lives of Eminent Zoologists: From Aristotle to Linnaeus : with Introductory ...

William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...branches. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler...withers away. Hence, as this plant forms a new genus, I have chosen for it the name of Andromeda." " Botany may be compared to one of those plants which...
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Lives of eminent zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnĉus

William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this...
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Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linaeus: With Remarks on the ...

William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this...
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Lives of Eminent Zoologists: From Aristotle to Linnaeus : with Introductory ...

William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 420 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this...
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Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in ..., Part 8

M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...leaves and branches. As Andromeda cast down her blushing head through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. At length Perseus, in the shape of summer, dries up the surrounding water, and destroys the monsters,...
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London, Volume 5

Charles Knight - London (England) - 1843 - 442 pages
...the abode of her vegetable reeembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...withers away. Hence, as this plant forms a new genus, I have chosen for it the name of Andromeda."* He subsequently pursued the analogy further : "At length,"...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. A> the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-colored flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers awaj. At length comes...
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