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It grows with great freedom when planted in light, sandy soil, big globose bushes being the result of a few years' growth. Being perfectly hardy it is to be recommended if only for the ample leathery, deep green foliage. The flowers are inconspicuous. There is a form having the leaves margined with pale yellow, and known under the name of E. glabra variegata. Japan, 1873.
The other, Archaeocidaris, represents, in like manner, the Cidaris of the present seas. Productus semireticulatus, Martin, sp. Spirifera trigonalis, Martin, sp. Mountain Limestone. Spirifera glabra, Martin, sp. The British Carboniferous mollusca enumerated by Mr. Etheridge comprise 653 species referable to 86 genera, occurring chiefly in the Mountain Limestone.
He felt drowsy; the mysterious incense of the shop, that combined essence of drugs, spice, scented soap, and orris root which always reminded him of the Arabian Nights was affecting him. He yawned, and then, turning away, passed behind the counter, took down a jar labeled "Glycyrr. Glabra," selected a piece of Spanish licorice, and meditatively sucked it.
The white alder at this time of year is prodigal of rich and delectable odors. The jewel-weed with all its beauty has none that my sense can perceive. But that of Chelone glabra, as modest and withdrawn as the flower itself, seems hardly to belong in the swamp for all the beauty of the place.
I skirted the wood in company with Lucien, who was the first to discover a West Indian cherry-tree Malpighia glabra. The red fleshy and acid fruit was much to our taste; so the boy climbed the tree in order to get plenty, rejoicing in the idea of giving his friends an agreeable surprise. When he had finished, we went to examine a dead tree.
Perchance there will appear to the traveller something, he knows not what, of laeta and glabra, of joyous and serene, in our very faces. Else to what end does the world go on, and why was America discovered? To Americans I hardly need to say, "Westward the star of empire takes its way."
Perchance there will appear to the traveller something, he knows not what, of laeta and glabra, of joyous and serene, in our very faces. Else to what end does the world go on, and why was America discovered? To Americans I hardly need to say, "Westward the star of empire takes its way."
This deposit contains numerous fossil shells, consisting chiefly of four distinct species of a new genus, nearest to hippopodium; also a new species of trochus; Atrypa glabra, and Spirifer, a shell occurring also in older limestones of England.* These shells having been submitted to Mr. James De Carl Sowerby, I am indebted to that gentleman for the following description: Class Conchifera.
HERNIARIA glabra. RUPTUREWORT. The Leaves. It is a very mild restringent, and may, in some degree, be serviceable in disorders proceeding from a weak flaccid state of the viscera: the virtue which it has been most celebrated for, it has little title to, that of curing hernias. HYPERICUM perforatum. ST. JOHN'S WORT. The Leaves and Flowers. Its taste is rough and bitterish; the smell disagreeable.
So they were called, too, by that lover of flowers, Walter Savage Landor, who, as his biographer says, followed a pronunciation "traditional in many old English families." I took it for a member of the heath family, but it proved to belong with the hollies, Ilex glabra, or ink-berry, a plant not to be found in the county where it is my present lot to botanize.
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