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Ovid more commonly uses _renouare_, as at _Tr_ V xii 23-24 'fertilis, assiduo si non renouetur aratro,/nil nisi cum spinis gramen habebit ager', _Am_ I iii 9, _Met_ I 110 & XV 125, _Fast_ I 159, and _Tr_ IV vi 13.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Gramen Xerampelino, Miliacea, praetenuis ramosaque sparsa panicula, sive Xerampelino congener, arvense, æstivum; gramen minutissimo semine.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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Did we see in fact the internodes (parts between the knots) of a gramen of the tribe of nastoides? or may this carex be perhaps a cyperaceous plant* destitute of knots?
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Its banks are ornamented by a superb gramen, of which I made a drawing two years afterward on ascending the river
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A gramen of Switzerland grows on the granitic rocks of the straits of
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* We descended the eastern dome of the Silla, and gathered in our descent a gramen, which not only forms a new and very remarkable genus, but which, to our great astonishment, we found again some time after on the summit of the volcano of Pichincha, at the distance of four hundred leagues from the Silla, in the southern hemisphere.
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This colossal gramen looks like the donax of Italy.
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Nothing can exceed the elegance of this arborescent gramen.
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The distich-leaved stalk of this gramen often reaches the height of fifteen or twenty feet.
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A climbing gramen* with its light festoons unites trees, the presence of which attests the coolness of the climate of these mountains.
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