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  • The Cleveland Art Museum 'Paysage lacustre avec troupeaux' 1640, by Salvatore Rosa.

    Painting's Changing Landscapes Judy Fayard 2011

  • The total extension of the vaso lacustre (lake vessel) is considered to measure 114,000 ha.

    A Season Of Hope 2007

  • The total extension of the vaso lacustre (lake vessel) is considered to measure 114,000 ha.

    A Season Of Hope 2007

  • Each has struck me as a decently liveable place offering small-town qualities of life, and somewhat more prosperous than many of the village communities of Michoacan's zona lacustre.

    Anyone familiar with Salvatierra, Yuriria, Moreleon, Valle de Santiago... 2005

  • Ubicado en la región lacustre de Pátzcuaro, la comunidad de San Andrés Tziróndaro tiene su origen en asentamientos de la época prehispánica.

    450 ANIVERSARIO DE SAN ANDR�S TZIR�NDARO 2005

  • I have seen the leaves of lake cress, _Nasturtium lacustre_, often spontaneously separate from the stem, possibly carrying at the base the rudiments of a small bud, which draws on the floating leaf for nourishment and produces a small plant near its base.

    Seed Dispersal 1878

  • _R. lacustre_, Lake or Swamp Gooseberry, with the prickly stems of the gooseberry, but with a raceme of flowers like those of a currant; found in the cold bogs and wet woods of the North; small, bristly berries, of unpleasant flavor.

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • More particularly of shrubs and small trees in swamps: some willows, Kalmia glauca (pale laurel), Ledum latifolium and palustre (Labrador tea), Ribes lacustre (swamp gooseberry), and in one place Betula pumila (low birch).

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Ribes lacustre (swamp-gooseberry), swamps, common, Mud Pond Swamp and Webster Stream; not ripe July 29, 1857.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • I also saw the swamp gooseberry (Ribes lacustre), with green fruit, and in all the low ground, where it was not too wet, the Rubus triflorus in fruit.

    The Maine Woods 1858

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