linnaea

He picked a few sprigs of late-blooming linnaea as we came out upon an open bit of pasture at the top of the island, and gave them to me without speaking, but he knew as well as I that one could not say half he wished about linnaea.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

On the margin of the meadow darling linnaea was in its glory; purple panicled grasses in full flower reached over my head, and some of the carices and ferns were almost as tall.

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

This is one of the few places in California where the charming linnaea is found, though it is common to the northward through Oregon and Washington.

Steep Trails John Muir 1876

To walk near the forest would mean to encounter huge mounds of snow hiding the levelled logs and boulders, stalactites of ponderous icicles depending from the tree trunks where the openings faced the light and the sun; farther in, and once safely past these glacial outposts, scarcely any signs of storm appeared; last year's leaves, still matted together underfoot, were tangled with the green vine of the creeping linnaea and a rare root of the lustrous winter-green.

Ringfield A Novel 1897

"An immature scent, just such an innocent breath as should precede the epigea, that spicy, exhaustive wealth of savor, that complete maturity of odor, marriage of daphne and linnaea.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various