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Did you ever wander over barren, parched stubble-fields, and suddenly front a knot of red Turk's-cap lilies, flaring as if they had drawn all the heat and brilliance from the land into their tissues?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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MELOCACTUS, the genus of melon-thistle or Turk's-cap cactuses, contains, according to a recent estimate, about 90 species, which inhabit chiefly the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The very showy Martagon, or Turk's-cap lily, also belongs to our neighborhood.
Rural Hours 1887
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Page 493 passion flower and the Turk's-cap lily, and on the mountain sides the poplar or tulip-tree, the hickory, ash, black and white walnut, the holly, the chincapin, the alder, and the chestnut, each in profusion.
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In the Smoky Mountains not far from Knoxville, Tenn., wild pigs are dining their way through patches of Turk's-cap lily -- a species federal authorities say is endangered, threatened, and vulnerable in several eastern states.
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Chalcedonicum) or "red Turk's-cap lily", which "comes into flower at the season of the year when our Lord's sermon on the mount is supposed to have been delivered.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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