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Bog asphodel

noun
1.
Either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions.



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... Lycopodiums—three species—enormously ancient forms which have survived the age of ice: but did they crawl downward hither from the northern mountains or upward hither from the Pyrenees? We have the beautiful bog asphodel again—an enormously ancient form; for it is, strange to say, common to North America and to Northern Europe, but does not enter Asia—almost an unique instance. It must, surely, have come from the north; and points—as do many species of plants and animals—to the time when ...
— Scientific Essays and Lectures • Charles Kingsley


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