houstonia

In the woods and on the hillsides the anemone could be seen; the houstonia added its color.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

In the woods and on the hillsides the anemone could be seen; the houstonia added its color.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

In the woods and on the hillsides the anemone could be seen; the houstonia added its color.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

In the woods and on the hillsides the anemone could be seen; the houstonia added its color.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

In the woods and on the hillsides the anemone could be seen; the houstonia added its color.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

They were gone a great while, and came back with a charming bunch -- arbutus, anemones, violets, and houstonia.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

In the fall, if you can find the tufts of eye-bright or houstonia cerulia, and mingle them in with your mosses, you will find them blooming before winter is well over.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

It is a perfect flower with its petals, like the houstonia or anemone.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, —these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844 1909

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844