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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STUDIES OF WAYSIDE FLOWERS, WHILE THE AIR WAS YET PURE AMONG THE ALPS, AND IN THE SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND WHICH MY FATHER KNEW. JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD. Oh?Proserpina For the flowers now, which frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon. PART VIII. GEORGE ALLEN, SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON, KENT. CHAPTER II. PINGUICULA. (Written in early June, 1881.) I. fN the rocks of my little stream, where it runs, or leaps, through the moorland, the common Pinguicula is now in its perfectest beauty; and it is one of the offshoots of the violet tribe which I have to place in the minor collateral groups of Viola very soon, and must not put off looking at it till next year. There are three varieties given in Sowerby: i. Vulgaris, 2. Greater-flowered, and 3. Lusitanica, white, for the most part, pink, or ' carnea, ' sometimes: but the proper colour of the family is violet, and the perfect form of the plant is the 'vulgar' one. The larger-flowered variety is feebler in colour, and ruder in form: the white Spanish one, however, is very lovely, as far as I can judge from Sowerby's (old Sowerby's) pretty drawing. The ' frequent' one (I shall usually thus translate ' vulgaris '), is not by any means so ' frequent' VOL. II. 4 as the Queen violet, being a true wild-country, and mostly Alpine, plant; and there is also a real ' Pinguicula Alpina, ' which we have not in England, who might be the Regina, if the group were large enough to be reigned over: but it is better not to affect Royalty among these confused, intermediate, or dependent families. 2. In all the varieties of Pinguicula, each blossom has one stalk only, growing from the ground; and you may pull al...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458958976 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458958973 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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