From the root of burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga).
Defn: Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceæ) of which saxifrage is the type.
Every summer, when the heather and pentstemon and saxifrage on the glacier slip are at their best, the cheerful water comes out of the foot of the nameless peak and the ousel comes up from the white torrent and sits upon the stones.
In Germany, too, a species of wild radish is said to reveal witches, as also is the ivy, and saxifrage enables its bearer to see witches on Walpurgis Night.
The Saxifrage is a native of high mountains, and it can only be propagated by being continually exposed to the open and bleakest part of the garden: it succeeds best in pots.
Like enough you'll find some blood root out by now and saxifrage too.
We found saxifrage at the base of an old oak, and white trilium and blood root, and perfect fields of bluets.
Helen and Doris knelt to look at some blossoming saxifrage at the edge of a rock.
Caius turned as he knelt upon the grass, and, holding the emerald moss and saxifrage plants in his hand, looked up at her.
On such a day the sight of a folded head of saxifrage from which the pearls are just breaking makes the heart of man bound with a pleasure that has certainly no rational cause which is adequate.
Her dark purple gloves and the saxifrage lay in her lap.
The saxifrage had faded, but among the red-cupped moss the checkerberry shot up tender, reddish leaves, the white violets scented the swamps, and the famous wild roses of the Cape dashed the bayberry thickets with pink.
But she blushed like a schoolgirl when she gave him, saxifrage and all, her ungloved hand.
She tossed her sun-umbrella, gloves, and saxifrage in a heap across Bayard’s arm, and ran like a girl or a collie swaying across the meadow in the wind.
Helen was preoccupied with her saxifrage and her purple gloves.
A blossom of the saxifrage fell to the hem of her dress, and over upon the sand.
It was a flower--a pressed flower--the saxifrage that he had gathered from the hem of her dress on the sand of the beach, that April day.
But the wind was south; and the saxifrage was in bud upon the downs in the clefts of the broken rocks between the boulders.
The winding walks edged their narrow way through great tinted carpets of saxifrage and sedums, and many another sturdy-leaved coverer of bare earth.
Yet here on Lookout Mountain it seemed almost as much an old friend as the saxifrage or the cranesbill.
Saxifrage form, but rather more highly coloured in the central markings than the general run.
This exactly answers to the colour of the pretty Saxifrage under notice, and it is far from a common one in foliage.
Surely the form of which we are speaking must be fully entitled to a name all its own, as it is not possible to find another Saxifragethat can so widely contrast with the whole genus.
The Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga), of the order Umbelliferae, is a common plant in dry pastures, and is very generally distributed.
Our last example of this order is the Cut-leaved or Mossy Saxifrage (S.
The other species is the Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage (C.
The very pretty Meadow Saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata), of the order Saxifragaceae, is very abundant in the meadows of some parts of England and Scotland, and may sometimes be seen on grassy roadsides.
The bushes which produce this fruit grow wild in the Northern part, of Great Britain, and belong to the Saxifrage order of plants.
Botanically the black Currant, Ribes nigrum, belongs to the Saxifrage tribe, this generic term Ribes being applied to all fresh currants, as of Arabian origin, and signifying acidity.
Some beautiful little yellow poppies were gathered on the slopes and crests of the hill, whilst the draba and saxifrage were found growing in profusion.
Tufts of saxifrage and some grasses were seen, but so thickly was the land covered with snow that it was impossible to arrive at any conclusion regarding the vegetation of the country.
Little tufts of the beautiful purple saxifrage dotted the sides of the hills over which we walked, bringing forcibly to our minds the wild flowers of our own dear country, and creating a longing desire to behold them once more.
It feeds on thyme and burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella).
It feeds in the spring till April, after hibernation, onsaxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides, S.
It feeds, in the autumn, on flowers of burnet-saxifrage (Pimpinella).
The Dotted Saxifrage has white or pale pink flowers with orange and purple dots on the petals.
The Brook Saxifrage takes its name from its love of springy places and stream banks.
The dainty little Fairy Saxifragegrows but 1-3 in.
Scheming joyously, he led his companion from the train at a station several miles from Saxifrage Inn, alighting at a mere flag station in the midst of a semi-wilderness.
Dorothy, from the very morning after the trip to Saxifrage Inn, had found herself scanning the pile with a curious sense of anticipation.
Our lesser Burnet Saxifrage hath much finer leaves than the former, and very small, and set one against another, deeply jagged about the edges, and of the same colour as the former.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saxifrage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
