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Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks But bears it out even to the edge of doom " and looked out of the window. The train was passing through a country of fields and dykes, where the sun, far down in the west, shone almost level over wide, whitish-green space, and the spotted cattle browsed or stood by the ditches, lazily flicking their tufted tails.
It seemed a mountain of whitish-green scales, fringed with long silvery moss, that hung like innumerable beards from every bough and twig. Nothing could better convey the idea of immense and incalculable age than the hoary beard and venerable appearance of this monarch of the woods.
"Not white?" inquired the skipper, leaning heavily upon the wheel. "Whitish-green," said the man, who always believed in keeping in with his superior officers. The captain swore at him. By this time two or three of the crew who had over-heard part of the conversation had collected aft, and now stood in a small wondering knot before their strange captain.
They were pieces of a lliana, or creeping plant. It was the bejuco de curare, or "mavacure," as it is sometimes called. The leaves he had stripped off, and left behind as useless. Had he brought them with him, they would have been seen to be small leaves of an oblong-oval shape, sharp at the points, and of a whitish-green colour. Don Pablo knew the plant to be a species of Strychnos.
The speed of the aeroplane had to be reduced, too; they traveled scarcely forty miles an hour. These cliffs ranged from two hundred to a thousand feet high. The professor, at once interested in such a marvel of nature, begged Jack to reduce the speed even more. They merely floated above the cracked expanse of whitish-green ice for some minutes.
"The copper beech contrasts so sweetly with the whitish-green thistle and the yellow leaf." "My sister Sophie," said Louise, "lays us each day a different garland; it is such a pretty decoration!
The thrip, a small, rather three-cornered, whitish-green insect, has of late been very troublesome, as they eat the under side of the leaves of some varieties, especially the Delaware and Norton's Virginia, when the leaf will show rusty specks on the surface, and finally drop off.
No one there could tell me the name of the marsh-marigold which grew thickly in the water-meadows "A sort of big buttercup," that was all they knew. Commonest of common plants is the "sauce alone" in every hedge, on every bank, the whitish-green leaf is found yet I could not make certain of it.
Sometimes a bee will visit the white rose on the briar. Near the gateway, on the edge of the trodden ground, grows a tall, stout, bushy plant, like a shrub, with pale greyish-green leaves, much lobed and divided: the top of each branch in August is thick with small whitish-green flowers tipped with brown.
The flowers are whitish-green and grow in loose clusters from a stiff middle stalk at the angles of the leaves. The fruit is a gray-green berry growing in scant, drooping clusters. This gray drooping berry is the sumac poison sign, for the fruit of the harmless sumach is crimson and is held erect in close pyramidal clusters.
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