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Updated: May 4, 2025
"When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady's smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo." And one of the finest of our orchids is "Our Lady's slipper." The ribbon grass is "Our Lady's garters," and the dodder supplies her "laces."
Even the dodder, which not only twines about other weeds, but actually sucks its life from them, does not thereby lose an iota of its native character. This truth of the vegetable world is the more noteworthy, because, along with it there goes a very strong and persistent habit of individual variation. The plant is faithful to the spirit of its inherited law, but is not in bondage to the letter.
When a seed of Cuscuta, germinates, no cotyledons are to be distinguished. This peculiarity, however, the plant has in common with other parasites, and even with some plants, such as orchids, that vegetate normally. At this point there forms a prolongation of the tissue of the dodder a sort of cone, which penetrates the stalk of the host plant.
We are beginning to see that perfection and individuality are not incompatible, one is divine, and the other human. And isn't it by his very individuality that we are able to recognize Jesus to-day?" "You have evidently thought and read a great deal," Dodder said, genuinely surprised. "Why didn't you come to me earlier?" Eleanor bit her lip. He smiled a little.
The dodder, says Drummond, has roots like other plants, but when it fixes sucker discs on the branches of neighboring plants and begins to get its food through them, its roots perish. When it fails to use them it loses them. He also points to the hermit-crab as an illustration of this great fact in nature, that disuse means loss, and that to shirk responsibility is the road to degeneration.
Rank jewel flower poured gold from dainty cornucopias and lavender beard-tongue offered honey to a million bumbling bees; water smart-weed spread a glowing pink background, and twining amber dodder topped the marsh in lacy mist with its delicate white bloom.
There are exquisitely beautiful places along the side of the Dodder: shy little harbors and backwaters, and now and then a miniature waterfall or a broad placid reach upon which the sun beats down like silver. Along the river bank the grass grows rank and wildly luxurious, and at this season, warmed by the sun, it was a splendid place to sit.
"If I travel much longer with two such learned and philosophical scholars, I shall inevitably degenerate into an intellectual Dodder," yawned Alma. "Into a what?" asked her father. "A Dodder, sir.
The Danes having recovered Dublin, and strengthened its defences, Nial, it is stated, was incited by his confessor, the Abbot of Bangor, to attempt their re-expulsion. Sitrick and Ivar, sons of the first Danish leaders in Ireland, marched out to meet them, and near Rathfarnham, on the Dodder, a battle was fought, in which the Irish were utterly defeated and their monarch slain.
"It is mighty queer," muttered Mr. Spink. "I will look into this to-morrow." "The old Harry take Felps anyway," muttered Ham to himself. "How did he learn I threw that snowball? That Dodge crowd must have told him." It was Mammy Shrader's neighbor, Samuel O'Brien, who called upon Mr. Dudder. "Sure, Mr. Dodder, yer son ought to be locked up, so he ought," said the Irishman.
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