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The black taxodiums, standing thickly, usurped the ground, their umbellated crowns covered with hoary epiphytes, whose pendulous drapery shut out the sun, that would otherwise have nourished on that rich soil a luxuriant herbaceous vegetation.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

I moved amidst the huge pyramidal trunks of the cypresses, whose thick umbellated foliage, meeting overhead, shut out both sun and sky.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

The leaf of this plant, which bears a white umbellated blossom, is applied to reduce swellings.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William