Crossword-Solution: STERNBERGIA
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TLEREOC
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with STERNBERGIA (5)
Many, if not all of them, seem to have differed from living _Coniferæ_ in having large piths; for Professor Williamson has demonstrated the fossil of the coal-measures called _Sternbergia_ to be the pith of these trees, or rather the cast of cavities formed by the shrinking or partial absorption of the original medullary axis (see Figs.
When these interspaces have been filled up with inorganic matter, they constitute an axis to which, before their true nature was known, the provisional name of _Sternbergia_ (_d, d,_ Fig.
Hooker, be referred, like the _Sternbergia,_ to the _ Coniferæ._ Its geological importance is great, for so abundant is it in the coal-measures, that in certain localities the fruit of some species may be procured by the bushel; nor is there any part of the formation where they do not occur, except the under-clays and limestone.
And as to the Conifers, or pine-like trees--the Dadoxylon, of which the pith goes by the name of Sternbergia, and the uncertain tree which furnishes in some coal-measures bushels of a seed connected with that of the yew--we may suppose that they would find no more difficulty in growing in swamps than the cypress, which forms so large a portion of the vegetation in the swamps of the Southern United States.
There are many kinds of bulbous plants suitable for the decoration of cold greenhouses in winter and early spring in the way indicated, and the following may be regarded as a good selection:--Bulbocodiums, Chionodoxas, Crocuses (Spring), Erythroniums, Fritillarias (dwarf), Snowdrops, Hyacinths, Snowflakes, Grape Hyacinths, Dwarf Narcissi, Puschkinias, Scillas, Sternbergia Fischeriana, Bulbous Irises, Tecophilæa--all of which are described in their respective places in this work.