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Updated: June 18, 2025
The flowers are like those of our English groundsel and yellow in colour little "composite" knobs, each built up of many tubular "florets" packed side by side. At some points the highest part of the precipice actually overhangs the perpendicular face by many feet.
'I went to the Justice-room! 'My dear! with the groundsel? 'And the knitting-needles! On rushed the narration, unheeding trifles. 'There was the array: Mr. Calcott in the chair, and old Freeman, and Captain Shaw, and fat Sir Gilbert, and all the rest, met to condemn this wretched widow's son for washing his feet in a gutter! 'Pray what said the indictment? asked Mrs. Ponsonby.
This would take the heart out of anything which was trying to flower there, and it is only natural that, with the exception of the three groundsel beds, the garden is now a wilderness.
White clover, shepherd's purse, dock, plantain, and chickweed, are imported here by yaks; but the common Prunella of Europe is wild, and so is a groundsel like Senecio Jacobaea, Ranunculus, Sibbaldia, and 200 other plants. The grasses are numerous; they belong chiefly to Poa, Festuca, Stipa, and other European genera. I made frequent excursions to the great glacier of Kinchinjhow.
The Scotch peasantry pluck twigs of the ash, the Highland women the groundsel, and the German folk wear the radish. In early times the ringwort was recommended by Apuleius, and later on the fern was regarded as a preservative against this baneful influence. The Chinese put faith in the garlic; and, in short, every country has its own special plants.
You'll weed, Groundsel! and leave Mary to get up the docks and dandelions, and clear away the heap. But, never mind. Here we've taken Mary's game, and she hasn't even got a part." "Yes," said I, "I have; I have got a capital part. I have only to think of a name." "How shall you be dressed?" asked Adela. "I don't know yet," said I. "I have only just thought of the part."
Part of them had already settled on the groundsel- and camomile-flowers to await the arrival of the Bees; but the majority were still wandering in search of this provisional refuge. It was by this wandering population that I had been invaded when I lay down at the foot of the bank.
And then did all these beautiful grasses grow up of themselves? You ought to know that they most likely did not. You know the new enclosures? Yes. Well then, do rich grasses come up on them, now that they are broken up? Oh no, nothing but groundsel, and a few weeds. Just what, I dare say, came up here at first. But this land was tilled for corn, for hundreds of years, I believe.
The surrounding roof was steep and high. The walls looked soiled and dark. The windows lined with dust and dirt, and the window-stones were in places tufted with moss, and grass, and groundsel. An arched doorway had opened from the house into this darkened square, but it was soiled and dusty; and the damp weeds that overgrew the quadrangle drooped undisturbed against it.
Each succeeding day made him pine more bitterly for his native woods for fresh air and green leaves, and the rest and quiet, and sweet perfumes, and pleasant sounds of country life. His turf dried up, his groundsel withered, and no more could be got. He longed even to be back with the old woman to see the apple-tree, and the window-plants, and be still.
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