musk-plant

Fuchsias and dark-red clove pinks grew in a peculiarly rich and sunny spot by the back fence, and over a pot of the musk-plant I used to hang as Isabella hung over her pot of basil.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

Within a stone's throw from the musk-plant spring was a standing redwood, with its heart burned out, in which thirteen men had slept one night, just to boast of it.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

One day, not long after our visit to William, he went again to see him; and when he came back I saw by the musk-plant in his hand the news he brought.

Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

I ascended without having been obliged to alight from my horse, and I found that the summit was very spacious, being covered towards the south with tree-ferns, and the musk-plant grew in great luxuriance.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

But the tree-fern, musk-plant, brush, and lofty timber together shut us up for a long time from any prospect of the low country to the southward, and it was not until I had nearly exhausted a fine sunny afternoon in wandering round the broad summit that I could distinguish and recognise some of the hills to the westward; and when I at length obtained a glimpse of the country towards the coast the features of the earth could scarcely be distinguished from the sky or sea, although one dark point looked more like a cape than a cloud and seemed to remain steady.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

I bought two pots of fragrant flowers ” heliotrope and a musk-plant ” bringing them on the steamer with no little difficulty.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921