Etymology: (Greek: sun flower) Note: Helianthus maximilianii Schrad.
Etymology: (Greek: red flower) Note: Limb width measured between most distant points across corolla face.
Etymology: (Greek: flax flower) Note: Other taxa in TJM (1993) moved to Leptosiphon.
The correct way to buy roses is to go rose hunting in summer when they are in flower, note your favourite type, and wait patiently until late autumn to buy the object of your desire.
D. Single flower; note the bifid tips to the lateral staminodes and the yellow callus in the middle of the labellum.
Throughout the day, family members, friends and neighbors passed by to drop flowers, notes and photos on the sidewalk.
Then, when rescue workers and volunteers covered the sculpture with flowers, notes, pictures and hard hats, the bronze businessman nearly disappeared beneath the tributes.
Meanwhile, a growing number of the faithful stream daily to the grotto, tucking flowers, notes to the Virgin and religious medals in the rocks of the arched structure.
Afterward, it became an icon, as newspaper and magazine photos showed it covered in ash and, later, by flowers, notes and candles left there by mourners and rescue workers.
FOR the 19 months before Ladder Company 25 moved in April to its temporary West 83rd Street headquarters, many informal memorials -- photographs, candles, flowers, notes -- were placed at the entrance to its West 77th Street firehouse.
