He got up to meet her as she approached, a hamadryad in white muslin, across the grass. |
Pomona was a hamadryad, and was so devoted to the care of her trees that she scorned the idea of love. |
A hamadryad gets her power from her tree, and a dryad gets her power from the whole forest. |
Such a sad mistake did Dryope once make, and suffered for her carelessness by being changed from a mortal into a hamadryad. |
Science scoffs at reminiscence of dryad and hamadryad, and of trees speaking. |
Every tree has a hamadryad, who lives in it, who is born when it first grows, and who dies when it dies. |