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Definition of Brown bells
1. Noun. California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers.
Generic synonyms: Checkered Lily, Fritillary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Bells
Literary usage of Brown bells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years in Paradise: Leaves from a Society Reporter's Note-book by Mary Bowden Carroll (1903)
"... displays its purple-brown bells, while the malvas are giving their haunts
tones of pink and magenta, and the clarkia and the eucha- ridium, ..."
2. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"Similar in name, Asarum now recalls itself to me; a low-growing race, forming
mats of small, rounded, glossy leaves, with small brown bells of blossom ..."
3. Collections of the Virginia Historical Society by Virginia Historical Society (1892)
"... this Company would be pleased to give them 100 pieces and 50 brown bells out
of his Majesty's princely gift and bounty bestowed upon this- Company, ..."
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