Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 52
lovely and rare.See, the young leaves are light green and yel-low; the older leaves are darker,—shades of greenand olive. A few are even black, and all growingfrom the same root. How perfect is every leaf, inspite of its delicate texture ! Some of those largerleaves must be ten or twelve inches… … MADAGASCAN DRINKING-CUP FORMED FROM A LEAF OF THE TRAVELERS TREE. called the pleasant-tasting vegetable that one ofhis boyish Madagascan friends had given him to eat,the edible root of the lace-leaf plant, the missionaryhad determined to make a careful search for theplant so prized by naturalists.…
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