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GRASS OF PARNASSUS

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 378 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GRASS OF PARNASSUS , in botany, a small herbaceous plant known as Parnassia palustris (natural order
Saxifragaceae
 ), found on wet moors and bogs in Britain but less common in the
south
 . The
white
 
regular
  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 sunshine and look like a drop of honey. Honey is secreted by the
base
  of each of the scales.


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