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Definition of Polygalas
1. polygala [n] - See also: polygala
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygalas
Literary usage of Polygalas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"... are only slightly different from those of some polygalas, I am quite unable
to agree with him that this shrub and tree are congeneric with herbaceous ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Wilhelm Miller, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"In the culture of polygalas there are three points of view. ... Kef erring to
our native species, FW Barclay writes: "polygalas are mainly plants of low ..."
3. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1851)
"... two varieties of Eriostemon, one forming a cylinder of little white stars at
least seven feet high; two polygalas, the white variety of Erica vestita, ..."
4. Greenhouse & Stove Plants: Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"polygalas are very free rooters, and not nearly so impatient of slight excess of
moisture at the roots as many Cape plants .are. ..."
5. Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"They are nearly allied to polygalas, but the flowers are smaller, ... Their propagation
and after treatment are such as advised for polygalas, which see. ..."
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