 | James Thacher - 1826 - 884 str.
...is referred to the American new Dispensatory, 4th edition. CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS. BUTTON BCSH. " BUTTON bush, or river bush, is a frequent ornament...thickets furnishing a safe retreat for the nests of the black-bird. The shrub rises five or six feet out of the water, its leaves are tough, spreading, pointed... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 614 str.
...corolla within. The style is twice as long as the corolla, tapering, and ending in an ovate stigma. " Button bush, or river bush, is a frequent ornament...nests of the black bird, ( Oriolus phceniceus)." "The appearance of this shrub, on elevated ground, often indicates the presence of springs of water." —... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 656 str.
...corolla within. The style is twice as long as the corolla, tapering, and ending in an ovate stigma. " Button bush, or river bush, is a frequent ornament...retreat for the nests of the black bird, (Oriolus pIuBniceus)." "The appearance of this shrub, on elevated ground, often indicates the presence of springs... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1848 - 456 str.
...the ownership of a share. This is called buttoning up. — A Walk in Wall Street, p. 47. grows along the water side, its insulated thickets furnishing a safe retreat for the nests of the black-bird. Its flowers appear at a distance like the balls of the sycamore tree ; hence its name.... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 str.
...— A Walk in Wall Street, p. 47. BUTTON BUSH. (Cephalanthus oceidentalis.) A shrub which grows along the water side, its insulated thickets furnishing a safe retreat for the ' nests of the blackbird. Its flowers appear at a distance like the balls of. the sycamore tree ; hence its name.... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 str.
...from Chicago. Button-Bush. (Cepltalanlhux occultnlalls.) A shrub which grows along the water-side, its insulated thickets furnishing a safe retreat for the nests of the blackbird. Its flowers appear at a distance like the balls of the sycamore tree ; hence its name. —... | |
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... ending in four, rounded segments, with black points, on short footstalks, at the angles, just within which are the anthers, resting erect on the end of filaments which are attached to the tube of the corolla within. The style is twice as long as the... 