Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrolas
Literary usage of Pyrolas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia Wilmotte Henderson Henshaw (1915)
"It has a slight sweet odour, and, in common with all the pyrolas, is an evergreen.
... It may always be distinguished from other pyrolas, even in bud, ..."
2. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"... glimpse of a blood-red spike betrays the most wonderful of them all—the snow-plant.
Of the pyrolas we made the acquaintance of three in this region. ..."
3. The Natural History of Prince Edward Island by Francis Bain (1890)
"Five species of pyrolas are little evergreen plants of the dry fir wood, ...
Moneses uniflora, resembling the pyrolas, has a single odorous blossom. ..."
4. Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine by William Hamilton Gibson (1890)
"But these " odorous beds" are strewn with the pale pink bells when the pyrolas
come upon the scene, and the tiny creeping-twins of the fragrant ..."
5. New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons by William Whitman Bailey (1896)
"Humble relations of these stately plants are the shin-leaves, or pyrolas—sometimes
also called wintergreen, though that name more properly belongs to the ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1884)
"... dryness, and light. ness. So the carpenter has learned to sometimes build
double walls. 7 p. M. To Cliffs. . . . pyrolas are beginning to blossom. ..."
7. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1894)
"pyrolas are beginning to blossom. The four-leaved loosestrife. The longest days
in the year have now come. The sun goes down now (this moment) behind ..."
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