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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Last Year's Leaves
Asa Gray, Elements of Botany (New York: G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1836), p. 381:
Marcescent; withering without falling off; as the flowers of Hemerocallis, the leaves of Beech and Hornbeam.