"That is my arrow-maker," he cried, showing me a round stone whorl.

In their season, which is after the gilias are at their best, and before the larkspurs are ripe for pollen gathering, every terminal whorl of the lupin sends up its blossom stalk, not holding any constant blue, but paling and purpling to guide the friendly bee to virginal honey sips, or away from the perfected and depleted flower.

How many shells, whorl within whorl, Litter the marges of the sphere With wrack of unregarded pearl, To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, Hath travailed with exceeding fear.

How many shells, whorl within whorl, Litter the marges of the sphere With wrack of unregarded pearl, To shape that little thing your ear: Creation, just to make one girl, Hath travailed with exceeding fear.

In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorl just below.

In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorl just below.

This is produced by the habit of the tree of throwing out a whorl of imperfect branches just below the union of the main branches with the trunk.

The arrangement of leaves in the bud. WHORL.

Spindle turns on the knees of Necessity: and on the rim of each whorl sits perched a Siren, who goes round with it, hymning a single note; the eight notes together forming one harmony.

Hence they changed to a whorl of salvias (2).

Late in October you may see the yellow or brown foliage of the pines, then ready to fall, surrounding the branches of the previous year's growth, forming a whorl of brown fringe surmounted by a tuft of green leaves of the present year's growth.

Morina (Whorl Flower).An ornamental hardy perennial, which is seldom met with.

The word "cyclone" by itself suggests a ghastly whorl of high vapours, and the addition of "anti" seems to make it even more hostile.

Every ridge-mark, every loop and whorl of the varying patterns was engraved on my memory.

Shell depressed, conical, pale reddish, ornamented with rows of white and brown spots, spirally grooved, ribs slightly granulated; the sutures distinct, impressed, the lower part of the last whorl nearly smooth, the umbilicus white, smooth inside, the edge furnished with a series of granules.

It is entirely smooth, polished, and has the last whorl near the spire slightly concave, edged with a scarcely raised rather nodulous line, the outer lip is very thick, grooved on its inner edge, and the columella is distinctly plaited.

Shell orbicular, nearly trochi-form, white with two pale-brown bands on each whorl; the one near the suture narrow, and the other, placed on the middle of the whorl, broad; whorls five; convex rounded, with numerous close concentric furrows; axis umbilicated; umbilicus rather narrow, deep; aperture rather more than one half the length of the shell; peristome (not formed ?) simple. 99.

Shell orbicular, nearly trochi-form, white with two pale-brown bands on each whorl; the one near the suture narrow, and the other, placed on the middle of the whorl, broad; whorls five; convex rounded, with numerous close concentric furrows; axis umbilicated; umbilicus rather narrow, deep; aperture rather more than one half the length of the shell; peristome (not formed ?) simple. 99.

In one spot there would be nothing, in an adjacent spot a whorl of beets, big and little, crowding and jostling and elbowing each other, like school-boys round the red-hot stove on a winter's morning.

Above floated gold and gray and silver-edged cloudsbelow shone a whorl of dusky, ruddy bronze haze, gradually thickening.

From a basket of blossoming flowers comes the aroma of balsamic benzoin, geranium and the whorl-flowered bent-grass which permeates the room.

154 Prinos verticillatus Whorl-leaved Winter-berry b.l.

31 Disermas Long-spiked ditto c.m. 32 verticillata Whorl-flowered ditto c.m. 33 glutinosa Yellow-flowered ditto c.m. 34 lineata Flax-leaved ditto l.b. 35 Collinsonia canadensis Nettle-leaved Collinsonia c.m.

Tall ditto l.b. 426 Antirrhinum purpureum Purple Toad-flax c.m. 427 - genistifolium Broom-leaved ditto l. 428 - triornithophorum Whorl-leaved ditto l.b.

l.b. 646 Coreopsis verticillata Whorl-leaved Coreopsis c.m. 647 - tripteris Three leaved ditto c.m. 648 - aurea Hemp-leaved ditto c.m.