"Sweet flag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ledum, and Monotropa among the sympetalous heaths, are a remarkable instance of this. The whole evolution of the monocotyledons from the lowest orders of dicotyledons implies the seeming loss of cambial growth and many other qualities. In the order of aroids, from the calamus-root or sweet flag, with its small but complete flowers, up to the reduced duckweeds (Lemna), almost an unbroken line of intermediate steps may be traced showing everywhere the concurrence of progressive and ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... following indication, from Mr Whitman himself, of the relation in which this word Calamus is to be understood:—"Calamus is the very large and aromatic grass or rush growing about water-ponds in the valleys—spears about three feet high; often called Sweet Flag; grows all over the Northern and Middle States. The recherche or ethereal sense of the term, as used in my book, arises probably from the actual Calamus presenting the biggest and hardiest kind of spears of grass, and their fresh, ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman |
