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Miscanthus varieties like the creamy-flowered "Morning Light," brilliant burgundy "Purpureus" and green- and yellow-banded porcupine grass are popular, as is fluffy, purple hairy awn muhly, "Karl Foerster" feather reed grass and the bottlebrush-flowered fountain grass.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Purpureus has purple leaves, which are very effective.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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_ Purpureus, facie pectoreque subcinereis, antennis, pedibus halteribusque nigris, abdomine cyaneo-viridi segmentorum marginibus posticis purpureis, alis nigricantibus margine postico cinereo.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Purpureus, called also Petropolitanus (sixth century), contains Gospels in silver on purple vellum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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_ Haseloff also described it in 1898 _ (Codex Purpureus Rossanensis), _ and pointed out that its iconographical value consists in the fact that it is the only
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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