alisma

• Here is a typha ... here an alisma; and by the overpowering perfume, this, I know, is the acacia flower. —  Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
• Next, examining the direction of the veins in the leaf of the alisma, —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• -- Represented by the alisma 52 —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• 31] No wild flowers were out, except a white _alisma_. —  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
• But the two figures of elm and alisma leaf, given in Modern Painters (vol. iii.), and now here repeated, Fig. 3, will clearly enough {53} show the opposition between this vertebrate form, branching again usually at the edges, _a_, and the softly opening lines diffused at the stem, and gathered at the point of the leaf _b_, which, as you almost without doubt know already are characteristic of a vast group of plants, including especially all the lilies, grasses, and palms, which for the most part are the signs of local or temporary moisture in hot countries; -- local, as of fountains and streams; temporary, as of rain or inundation. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers

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