Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ornamental plants of the order Campanulaceæ, distinguished by a five-parted corolla with narrow spreading or long cohering lobes, and a fruit closed at the apex and dehiscent laterally.
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In the summer he used to keep a look-out for the little flowers of the short, close turf of the chalk which could remind him of his Alpine favourites, in particular the curious phyteuma; and later on, in the folds of the hills where he had marked them, the English Gentians.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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In the summer he used to keep a look-out for the little flowers of the short, close turf of the chalk which could remind him of his Alpine favourites, in particular the curious phyteuma; and later on, in the folds of the hills where he had marked them, the English Gentians.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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