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  • Near this camp we found a PHYLLANTHUS, scarcely different from P. SIMPLEX; a SESBANIA near S. ACULEATA, but with smaller flowers; and the CHENOPODIUM AURICOMUM, formed a white-leaved shrub, three or four feet high.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Then there is the woolly Inula (I. candida), a pretty plant with small oval leaves, covered with a thick, silky down, and much in the way of the white-leaved I. limonifolia, both of which are very effective when grown in masses, which should always be low down near the front of a rockery, or as an edging for a mixed border.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

  • _H. argophyllus_ (white-leaved, not argyrophyllus, silver-leaved, as written in some catalogues).

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various

  • But surpassing all these in pleasing and novel effects are the curled, pink, red and white-leaved varieties of chicory and nasturtium flowers alone or resting upon parsley or other delicate foliage.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • He sat hour after hour among white-leaved books, alone like an idol in an empty church, still except for the passage of his hand from one side of the sheet to another, silent save for an occasional choke, which drove him to extend his pipe a moment in the air.

    The Voyage Out 1915

  • He sat hour after hour among white-leaved books, alone like an idol in an empty church, still except for the passage of his hand from one side of the sheet to another, silent save for an occasional choke, which drove him to extend his pipe

    The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

  • Some of the silver or white-leaved poplars, for example, produce the most striking contrasts of foliage, particularly if set near darker trees, and for this reason they are much desired by many planters.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Veitchii_ (the latter striped-leaved or white-leaved) are exceedingly ornamental, and are well adapted to house culture.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Her favourite shrub is the white-leaved rock-rose (_Cistus albidus_), with the large, pink, crumpled, ephemeral blooms that last but

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • AURICOMUM, formed a white-leaved shrub, three or four feet high.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823

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