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  • The forest, from the Latin floris, meaning “outside,” has always attracted outsiders.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The forest, from the Latin floris, meaning “outside,” has always attracted outsiders.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The forest, from the Latin floris, meaning “outside,” has always attracted outsiders.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • [3254] Fulget gemma floris, et jaspide fulva supellex,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Dampierae proxime habitu et plurimis cum floris, tum habitus characteribus, paracolla cuculliforme ab omnibus Goodeniacearum generibus huc usque cognitis, diversa.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Matrona inter primas honesta, Philomela nomine quae multas saepe hereditates officio aetati extorserat, tum anus et floris extincti, filium filiamque ingerebat orbis senibus, et per hanc successionem artem suam perseverabat extendere.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Verisimilor autem videtur ea opinio, quæ peloriam pro peculiari degeneratione monstrosa floris habet, in quam inclinare hoc genus

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Quem quamvis praecordialis amoris affectu deligeret, querulabatur tamen dolens, quod virginalis decorem floris non meruit conservare.

    The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Rami ramulique angulati; ultimi oppositi, indivisi, divaricati, apice diphylli, foliis minimis et rudimento minuto floris abortivi.

    Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

  • NEURACHNE (paradoxa) glaberrima, culmo dichotomo, foliis rameis abbreviatis, fasciculis paucifloris, glumis perianthiisque imberbibus valvula exteriore cujusve floris septemnervia.

    Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

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