bog-flowers

Updated: May 1, 2025

As for the flowers they gathered, there were so many I have no time to tell you about them wood-flowers and bog-flowers and grass-flowers, and ferns of all sizes to mix with them, from the great Osmunda, which grew along the Ravensnest Beck, down to the tiny little parsley fern.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Milly and Olly

Then Terry said no more, but crept meekly into her little bed, burrowed into the pillows, and wept. The destruction of Nurse Nancy's spectacles was a real tragedy. Between the hills and the sea spectacles are not found growing like limpets on the rocks, or shaking on the wind like the bog-flowers.

Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert - Terry: Or, She ought to have been a Boy