"Helianthus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for convenience that the modern poets translate the Latin word HELIOTROPIUM, by the English sunflower. The sunflower, which was known to the ancients, was called in Greek, helianthos, from HELIOS, the sun; and ANTHOS a flower, and in Latin, helianthus. It derives its name from its resemblance to the sun; but, as any one may see, at sunset, it does not "turn to the God when he sets the same look that it turned when ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR
... a small glade or opening, such as are often met with in the forests west of the Mississippi. There was about an acre of clear ground, covered with grass and flowers, among which helianthus and blue lupines were conspicuous. Tall trees grew all around; and you could tell from their leaves that these trees were of different kinds. You might have told that from their trunks as well, for these were unlike each other. ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... introduction, of which we eat the root, and which we also call artichoke, because it resembles the first in flavour, although, me judice, a very inferior affair. This last is a species of the helianthus, or sunflower genus of the Syngenesia frustranea class of plants. It is therefore a girasol, or turn-to-the-sun. From this girasol we have made Jerusalem, and from the Jerusalem artichoke we ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock
... ruber. Argemone grandiflora. Centaurea Americana. Centauridium Drummondii. Cerinthe retorta. {c. double yellow. Chrysanthemum coronarium album and Clarkia elegans alba fl. pl. Cleome spinosa. Cyclanthera pedata. Datura fastuosa and New Golden Euphorbia marginata. {Queen. Gilia capitata alba. Helianthus Dwarf double and cucu- Hibiscus Golden Bowl. {merifolius. Lavatera trimestris. Madia ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey |
