dielytra

Updated: May 9, 2025

'No wonder they think I want an object in life, thought Ethel; 'how awfully tiresome I must be! Poor things, what can I say to make it pleasanter? Do you know this Dielytra? I think it is the prettiest of modern flowers, but I wish we might call it Japan fumitory, or by some English name. 'I used to garden once, but we have no flower-beds now, they spoilt the lawn for croquet.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Trial

Here the car finally stopped of its own accord, and they walked along a rutty road, past a stone-cutter's yard with a high fence tapestried with theatrical advertisements, to a little red house with green blinds and a garden paling. Really, Mr. Ramy had not deceived them. Clumps of dielytra and day-lilies bloomed behind the paling, and a crooked elm hung romantically over the gable of the house.

Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters