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Old 01-18-2003, 09:34 AM   #13
Bill Ferny
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Tar-Palantir, that’s one of those paragraphs that invariably slows the reader down [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

anemones: any of a genus of perennial herbs of cool and temperate regions having petal-like sepals instead of petals.

asphodel: a plant of the lily family, bearing white or yellow flowers.

juniper: any of a genus of evergreen pinaceous shrubs; especially the common juniper of Europe and America. It has dark-blue berries of a pungent taste, which are used n making gin (wha-hoo!).

marjoram: any of several perennial herbs of the mint family with nearly entire leaves, dense oblong spikes of flowers, and colored bracts.

myrtle: a tree or shrub of southern Europe, originally from Asia. It is a bushy shrub or small tree with glossy evergreen leaves, fragrant white or rose-colored flowers, and black berries.

parsley: a cultivated umbelliferous herb with aromatic, finely divided leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.

primeroles: ? a wild guess here, but this may refer to the primrose. primrose: An early-blossoming perennial herb with tufted basal leaves and variously colored flowers.

sage: a plant of the mint family especially the common garden sage, a stiff, shrubby perennial with gray-green leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers.

saxifrage and stonecrops: any plant of genus saxifraga, growing in rocky places, stonebreak. (saxifragaceous: Of or pertaining to a widely distributed family of herbs, shrubs, and trees, including gooseberries and witch hazel.)

tamarisk: an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region, western Asia, and India, with slender branches bearing small, pinkish-white flowers in racemes.

terebinth: a small tree with winged pinnate leaves resembling those of the common ash but smaller.

thyme: any of a genus of small shrubby plants of the mint family, having aromatic leaves and cltivated for seasoning in cookery.

I know what your thinking… well, I had some time on my hands this morning. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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