The apiarium shall stand close to these ponds-as Virgil commends:" At liquidi fontes et stagna virentia musco Adsint, et Tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus "-And shall be surrounded with beds of violets and lavender and such blue flowers as bees especially love.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Then Alternaria Tenuis, Pr.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
The true Maidenhair is named Adiantum, from the Greek: Quod denso imbre cadente destillans foliis Tenuis non insidet humor, "Because the leaves are not wetted even by a heavily falling shower of rain."
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie