Crossword-Solution: ARCTICA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The names of these, given by the classical Linnaeus and Wahlenberg, tell in some cases of their birth-places, in others of their hardihood, their lurid colours and weather-beaten aspects; such as _tristis, gelida, glacialis, arctica, alpina, saxatilis, polaris, frigida,_ and numerous others equally familiar to the Scotch botanist.

The names of these, given by the classical Linnæus and Wahlenberg, tell in some cases of their birth-places, in others of their hardihood, their lurid colours and weather-beaten aspects; such as _tristis, gelida, glacialis, arctica, alpina, saxatilis, polaris, frigida,_ and numerous others equally familiar to the Scotch botanist.

The three attendants under the direction of the song-priest took from the medicine bag, first two feathers from the Arctic blue bird (_Sialia arctica_), which he placed west of the bit of cloth that lay at the north end of the rug; he placed two more of the same feathers below the second piece of cloth; two under the third, and two below the fourth, their tips pointing east.

The _Fratercula arctica_, a sea-bird with a singular bill, formerly supposed to be a bird in show, but a fish in substance, in consequence of which notion the pope permitted its being eaten in Lent.

They usually had in their maws the leaves of the _Dryas Integrifolia_, buds of the _Saxifraga Oppositifolia_, _Salix Arctica_, and _Draba Alpina_, the quantities being according to the order in which the plants have here been named.