Crossword-Solution: VRIESIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Beneath it stands the very rare scarlet Utricularia, growing in the axils of its native Vriesia, as in a cup always full; but as yet the flower has been seen in Europe only by the eyes of faith.

The single chance of success lies in bringing them down, undisturbed, in the great clumps of moss which are their habitat, as is the Vriesia of other species.

The limbs of these vegetable monsters--each itself as large as an ordinary tree--were loaded with parasites of many species; among which might be distinguished ragged _cactacae_, with various species of wild pines, from the noble _vriesia_ to the hoary, beard-like "Spanish moss," whose long streaming festoons waved like winding-sheets in the breeze--an appropriate draping for the eyrie of the black vultures (John-Crows) that might at all times be seen seated in solemn silence upon the topmost branches.