"Oxalis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... creepers, and a strawberry plant in the foreground, with a blossom and a berry just set, and one half ripe and one ripe, all patiently and innocently painted from the real thing, and therefore most divine. Fra Angelico's use of the oxalis acetosella is as faithful in representation as touching in feeling.[7] The ferns that grow on the walls of Fiesole may be seen in their simple verity on the architecture of Ghirlandajo. The rose, the myrtle, and the lily, the olive and orange, pomegranate and vine, have received their fairest portraiture ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... *Berberis! *Papaver! *Chelidonium! Sanguinaria. Podophyllum. *Mathiola! *Cheiranthus! *Iberis! *Cardamine! *Hesperis. *Barbarea! *Sinapis! *Brassica! *Helianthemum! *Viola! *Dianthus! *Saponaria! *Lychnis! *Silene! *Sagina! *Hibiscus! *Althaea! *Malva! AEsculus! *Geranium! *Pelargonium. *Tropaeolum! Oxalis! *Impatiens! *Camellia! Thea! Trifolium! Medicago! *Ulex! Spartianthus. Clitoria. Pisum! Orobus! Genista! Spartium! Cytisus! Anthyllis. Coronilla. Lotus! *Rosa! *Kerria! *Spiraea! *Fragaria! *Potentilla! *Crataegus! Cydonia. *Pyrus! Eriobotrya! ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters |
