GRASS OF

PARNASSUS  , in botany, a small herbaceous plant known as Parnassia palustris (natural order Saxifragaceae), found on wet moors and bogs in Britain but less common in the south . The white regular flower is rendered very attractive Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) . 1, one of the gland-bearing scales enlarged . . by a circlet of scales, opposite the petals, each of which bears a fringe of delicate filaments ending in a yellow knob . These glisten in the sunshine and look like a drop of honey . Honey is secreted by the base of each of the scales .