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  • Plants that flower on current season's growth -- Common sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) is a native plant that flowers on both current growth and that from the previous season.

    Knowing when to prune is crucial for dependable flower blossoms Joel M. Lerner 2010

  • 'Specimens of the new floral banded wobbegong (Orectolobus floridus) have been found between Geraldton and Augusta and specimens of the dwarf spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus parvimaculatus) were found in shark fishery catches between Green Head and Mandurah,' Mr Chidlow said.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Zoe, all the dogwoods here are C. floridus, both pinks and whites.

    Pink Dogwood Winter « Fairegarden 2008

  • Other important endemic species are Ceropegia fusca, Plocama pendula, Salvia canariensis, Argyranthemum frutescens, Rumex lunaria, Convolvulus floridus, and Messerschmidia fruticosa.

    Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests 2008

  • And betwene the cytee and the chirche in the felde floridus; that is to seyne, the feld florisched: for als moche as a fayre mayden was blamed with wrong, and sclaundred, that sche hadde don fornycacioun; for whiche cause sche was demed to the dethe, and to be brent in that place, to the whiche sche was ladd.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And betwene the cytee and the chirche in the felde floridus; that is to seyne, the feld florisched: for als moche as a fayre mayden was blamed with wrong, and sclaundred, that sche hadde don fornycacioun; for whiche cause sche was demed to the dethe, and to be brent in that place, to the whiche sche was ladd.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • This device, which goes back at least to Saint Augustine, was popu - larized by the treatise De fructu spiritus et carnis ascribed to Hugh of Saint Victor and by illustrations to such widely-read works as the Speculum virginum usually attributed to Conrad of Hirzau, Lambert's Liber floridus, and Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus deliciarum.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

  • He is probably identical with Lambert, the Canon of St. Omer who wrote the famous "Liber floridus", a kind of encyclopedia of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • From the custom of also blessing flowers and entwining them among the palms arose the terms Dominica florida and dies floridus.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Carolina allspice, sweet-scented shrub, _Calycanthus floridus.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

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