"Bryony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was a great boon, and there was healing in the power of silence—the repose of not being forced to be lively. Summer flowers had passed, but bryony mantled the bushes in luxuriant beauty, and kingly teazles raised their diademed heads, and exultingly stretched forth their sceptred arms. Purple heather mixed with fragrant thyme, blue harebells and pale bents of quiver-grass edged the path, and ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... lanes, from bough to bough Like tissue woven in a fairy loom; And crimson-berried bryony garlands ...
— Some Private Views • James Payn
... valley dashed; The whirlwind swathing tremulous peaks; young force, Visioned to hold corrected and abashed Our senile emulous; which rolls its course Proud to the shattering end; with these few last Hot quintessential drops of bryony juice, Squeezed out in anguish: all of that once vast! And still, though having skin for man's abuse, Though no more glorying in the beauteous wreath Shot skyward from a blood at passionate jet, Repenting ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... different individuals—female and hermaphrodites in one species; males, females, and hermaphrodites in another. One case, however, must be mentioned as it suggests a possibility which we have not hitherto encountered. In the common English bryony (Bryonia dioica) the sexes are separate, some plants having only male and others only female flowers. In another European species, B. alba, both male and female flowers occur on the same plant. Correns crossed these two species reciprocally, ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett |
