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Definition of Saxifrages
1. saxifrage [n] - See also: saxifrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxifrages
Literary usage of Saxifrages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1889)
"In practical gardening saxifrages are a very useful and decorative family.
As the majority are mountain plants, they serve particularly •well in the ..."
2. Studies in Gardening by Arthur Clutton-Brock (1916)
"But the diversity of the saxifrages is mainly in their leafage and habit of growth.
... There are mossy saxifrages; saxifrages growing in rosettes, some, ..."
3. Studies in Gardening by Arthur Clutton-Brock (1916)
"But the diversity of the saxifrages is mainly in their leafage and habit of growth.
... There are mossy saxifrages; saxifrages growing in rosettes, some, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"On the saxifrages of the ... group of saxifrages which I had the satisfaction of
making during the month of July last in the county of Kerry. ..."
5. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society (1889)
"Notes on Seedling saxifrages grown at Brockhurst from a single scape of ...
most showy of all the cultivated saxifrages, having the scape of S. Cotyledon, ..."
6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1864)
"... fruiting calyx without prickles, is said to have established itself in some
parts of Victoria, introduced from Europe. ORDER XLII. saxifrages. segments ..."
7. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"saxifrages. Character of the Sub-Order.—Herbs, with alternate, or rarely opposite,
exstipulate leaves. Calyx 4- to 5-toothed. Petals imbricated, or rarely ..."
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