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GRASS OF PARNASSUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRASS OF See also:

PARNASSUS , in See also:botany, a small herbaceous plant known as Parnassia palustris (natural See also:order See also:Saxifragaceae), found on wet See also:moors and bogs in See also:Britain but less See also:common in the See also:south. The See also:white See also:regular See also:flower is rendered very attractive Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris). 1, one of the gland-bearing scales enlarged. . by a circlet of scales, opposite the petals, each of which bears a fringe of delicate filaments ending in a yellow knob. These glisten in the See also:sunshine and look like a drop of See also:honey. Honey is secreted by the See also:base of each of the scales.

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