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Literary notes about flora (AI summary)

In literature, the word "flora" functions with notable versatility, serving both as a literal reference to plant life and as a personified or symbolic element within narrative. In some works, it is used in a naturalistic or scientific context to denote specific vegetation or the botanical makeup of a region—as seen in the discussions of native or ancient plant life ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5])—while in other texts it takes on a more personal role, often as a feminine name that evokes classical associations with beauty, rebirth, and natural order ([6], [7], [8]). Additionally, "Flora" appears as a character in various genres, ranging from subtle narrative presences in mysteries and social tales ([9], [10], [11], [12]) to allegorical functions in historical and satirical passages ([13], [14], [15]). This dual application enriches the literary landscape, allowing the term to simultaneously evoke the richness of nature and a nuanced, person-centered significance.
  1. So it is with the other animals, and with nearly all the plants, as shown by Dr. Hooker in his admirable memoir on the Flora of this archipelago.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  2. on relations of flora of South America, 379. on flora of the Antarctic lands, 381, 399.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  3. On the mountains of Abyssinia, several European forms and some few representatives of the peculiar flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  4. The deficiency of wild flowers found there is in part made up by the presence of sphagnum bogs with a typical fauna and flora of their own.
    — from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
  5. In Delile's Flora Ægyptiaca, the name of ghásool is given to the mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, class icosandria, order pentagynia.
    — from The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.
  6. Zephyrus was united to Chloris (Flora), the goddess of flowers.
    — from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens
  7. Flora, who typified the season of Spring, is generally represented as a lovely maiden, garlanded with flowers.
    — from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens
  8. Ovid , Fasti , v. 237-254 , H. 2 illa , i.e. Flora , the Roman goddess of Flowers and Spring.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  9. “I do not think Flora would hurt a fly.”
    — from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  10. He did stand there!—but high up, beyond the lawn and at the very top of the tower to which, on that first morning, little Flora had conducted me.
    — from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  11. I forget what I was on the present occasion; I only remember that I was something very important and very quiet and that Flora was playing very hard.
    — from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  12. "I think it would be worth while," Flora went on, "to have this old gentleman to dinner.
    — from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  13. In a period of embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a Flora.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  14. For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the Flora .
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  15. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his Flora after the expiration of thirteen months.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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