"Datura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extending into the ground several inches. The whole plant is almost indescribably irregular. It is quite an attractive plant when seen growing among the weeds and beside stumps. The plants in Figure 332 I found growing among Datura stramonium beside old stumps in a pasture. I have found the same species growing on oak stumps. It is known as Ganoderma Curtisii, Berk., G. pseudo-boletus, Merrill. It is found ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard
... Daucus. Ixora. Serissa! Gardenia! Lonicera! Sambucus. Viburnum. Scabiosa. *Campanula! Platycodon! Calluna! Azalea! Rhododendron! *Arbutus! *Erica! *Anagallis! *Primula! *Jasminum! Syringa! *Vinca! *Nerium! Allamanda! Tabernaemontana. *Calystegia! Convolvulus! Ipomoea. *Datura! *Petunia! Solanum! Orobanche. Gentiana. Mimulus. *Antirrhinum! Gratiola! *Digitalis! *Linaria! Veronica! Calceolaria! Achimenes. Gloxinia! Clerodendron! Bignonia. Cyclamen! Mirabilis. Laurus! Gladiolus! Crocus! Iris! *Galanthus! Leucojum! Sternbergia! Hippeastrum. ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... keeper, with his stylum behind his ear; the sleek praegustator, who sampled all foods, so as to stand between his master and poison, and beside him his predecessor, now a half-witted idiot through the interception twenty years before of a datura draught from Canidia; the cellarman, summoned from amongst his amphorae; the cook, with his basting-ladle in his hand; the pompous nomenclator, who ushered the guests; the cubicularius, who saw to their accommodation; the silentiarius, who kept order in the house; the structor, who ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... honeysuckle, or even the pomegranate, opening their gay blooms on every side. The close-shaven turf was broken by small patches of gorgeously-tinted flower-beds, diversified by vases filled with trailing plants, and lines of orange trees and fuchsias, with here and there a deep-belled datura, all converging towards the central marble fountain, where the water played high, and tinkled coolly in sparkling jets. Between it and the house, there were placed in the shade some brightly-tinted cushions and draperies, lounging chairs, and a low ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge |
