epigae

Updated: June 7, 2025

I have been lured out by the hope of the Mayflower, the delicate epigae repens, miscalled the trailing arbutus. Up the rocky hill-side, from whose top you catch glimpses of the far-off sparkling sea, with a blue haze of island ranges belting it, up among the rocks, into warm, sheltered, sunny nooks, you go upon your quest.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860