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  • A Crucifera, a rhubarby sorrel, a Goodyera, and one or two grasses, were the only additional novelties met with.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • Walking through a wood, found hawk-wort and asters in bloom, also a handsome rattlesnake plantain, or Goodyera, with its veined leaves and fragrant spike of white flowers; this is one of the plants formerly thought to cure the bite of the rattlesnake, though little credit is given to the notion nowadays.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • After such names as these, ought we not to be thoroughly ashamed of appellations like Batschia, Schoberia, Buchnera, Goodyera, Brugmannsia, Heuchera, Scheuzeria, Schizanthus, and as many more to match as you please?

    Rural Hours 1887

  • Lycopodium complanatum, Goodyera repens, Vaccinium myrtilis, V. vitis - idaea, Linnaea borealis) including more than 100 species of arboreal origin.

    Kazakh upland 2008

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