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  • Wilbur strained his eyes to see, but the unfamiliar growth of cacti, sage-brush, palo verde, and the dusty-miller plants made quick vision difficult.

    The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • The familiar and ever-present ribbon-grass, also called striped grass, canary grass, and gardener's garters, -- whose pretty expanded panicles formed an almost tropical effect at the base of the garden hedge; the variegated wandering jew, the striped leaves of some varieties of day-lilies; the dusty-miller, with its "frosty pow"

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

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