biscuit-porcelain

Updated: December 8, 2024

Here and there all about stood the waxen flowers of sagittaria above the barbed floating leaves, cool and darkly green. Close to the banks the tall and delicately branching water-plantains, on which great grasshoppers often hang their shed skins, were flecked with pale-pink blooms-flowers of biscuit-porcelain on hair-like stems. The splashing of a water-wheel roused me from my idle humour.

Edward Harrison Barker - Two Summers in Guyenne