variegated

• With its delicate leaves, almost as beautiful as a maidenhair fern, and its dainty pink flower, it festooned the ripening corn as wantonly and luxuriantly as it encircled the snowball and lilac bushes Though "colored herbs" were cultivated in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as carefully as were flowers,--striped hollies, variegated myrtles, and bays being the gardener's pride,--yet in our old American gardens few plants were grown for their variegated or odd-colored foliage. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• His infinitely variegated, and certainly most exquisitely colored, web fatigues attention. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
• In fact it is perhaps too variegated, and thus, because of the richness and originality of its subject matter, allows too much latitude to genius. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
• There is a form in which the leaves are variegated, and known under the name of K. japonica variegata KOELREUTERIA KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA.--Northern China, 1763. —  Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
• The surface has also undergone a gradual progress by which it has become always more and more variegated, and thereby fitted for the residence of a higher class of animals In pursuing the progress of the development of both plants and animals upon the globe, we have seen an advance in both cases, along the line leading to the higher forms of organization. —  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

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