They were scarcely more alive than the creeping, hour-hand tendrils about them, mere double-stemmed, fluffy petaled blossoms, no more strange than the nearest vegetable blooms-the cannon-ball mystery, the sand-box puzzle, sinister orchids, and the false color-alarms of the white-bracted silver-leaf.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Its bracted, nodding flowers run through all shades of white, pale yellow, and dark yellow.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals.
"The Pecan and its Culture"
H. Harold Hume