Snow Plant

Joe brought the wine, a bucket at which the boy had scrubbed for ten minutes, holding the bottle as the glass bowl held the snow-plant, in a bed of snow. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)

In the mountains, the high mountains above the seven or eight thousand foot level, grows an affair called the snow-plant. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Then, in this monotone of dark green frond and dull brown trunk and deep olive shadow, where, like the ordered library of one with quiet tastes, nothing breaks the harmony of unobtrusive tone, suddenly flames the vivid red of a snow-plant. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The Yosemite and the Sequoia are, however, the exclusive possessors among the parks of a remarkably showy flowering plant, the brilliant, rare, snow-plant. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)

So luring is the red pillar which the snow-plant lifts ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)

Indian fire glowed red on the white expanse, blood on marble, and scarlet snow-plant sent up lurid spouts like flaming fountains. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Most interesting of all is the snow-plant (_sarcodes san-guinea ❋ George Wharton James (1890)