First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 sider |
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Side 6
... fruit is ripe , one of the berries may be supposed to represent the head , and then the whole figure will be tolerably complete . Impostors , taking advantage of the credulity of mankind , carved the roots of briony , and other plants ...
... fruit is ripe , one of the berries may be supposed to represent the head , and then the whole figure will be tolerably complete . Impostors , taking advantage of the credulity of mankind , carved the roots of briony , and other plants ...
Side 10
... fruit- trees practised in China and Bengal . Suppose this figure to represent a fruit - bearing Fig . 3 . branch of one of these trees . The first step is to remove a circle of the bark of about an inch in length , the space for ...
... fruit- trees practised in China and Bengal . Suppose this figure to represent a fruit - bearing Fig . 3 . branch of one of these trees . The first step is to remove a circle of the bark of about an inch in length , the space for ...
Side 11
... fruit . * In the roots of some trees we find a particularly strong tendency to assume the functions of branches when exposed to the atmosphere ; hence we learn that in the cocoa - tree ( Theobroma Cacao ) , " flowers spring out from the ...
... fruit . * In the roots of some trees we find a particularly strong tendency to assume the functions of branches when exposed to the atmosphere ; hence we learn that in the cocoa - tree ( Theobroma Cacao ) , " flowers spring out from the ...
Side 32
... to board him by surprise . But Gama's cannon made seven of them fly ; the eighth , loaded with fruits and provisions , he took . " - Notes to Mickle's Lusiad . SUCCULENT PLANTS . 33 Bartram and are driven about upon 32 OF THE ROOT .
... to board him by surprise . But Gama's cannon made seven of them fly ; the eighth , loaded with fruits and provisions , he took . " - Notes to Mickle's Lusiad . SUCCULENT PLANTS . 33 Bartram and are driven about upon 32 OF THE ROOT .
Side 46
... fruits ; and that its inhabitants , with the most thoughtless ingratitude , sometimes supply them- selves with fuel from the tree which protects them . " Examples of the stem of the chesnut , oak , and several other kinds of trees ...
... fruits ; and that its inhabitants , with the most thoughtless ingratitude , sometimes supply them- selves with fuel from the tree which protects them . " Examples of the stem of the chesnut , oak , and several other kinds of trees ...
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afford animals anther appearance beautiful blossoms botanist Botany branches buds bulb called calyx capsule CAULIS clothed colour common compound flower contains corolla covered culm cuticle different species Digynia earth example feet ferns filaments fleshy floating florets FOLIUM frond fructification fruit Fuci Fucus garden genera genus grasses green grow hairs hence herb insects instance INVOLUCRUM Jamaica juice kind latter leaf leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Legume Lichen lily Linnæus means Monogynia mosses named native nature nourishment observe palm peduncle perhaps perianth pericarp petals petiole pinnate pinnate leaf pistil plants pollen primrose produce RADIX receptacle remarkable resemble root round says scarcely sea-weeds seed-vessels seeds shrub silicle Sir J. E. Smith sometimes stalk stamens stem stipe succulent plants surface sweet tendrils term thick thorn Travels trees TRIANDRIA Trigynia trunk tube tubers umbel vegetables violet volva Voyage winds Withering wood
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Side 256 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.
Side 295 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Side 369 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour,
Side 373 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Side 295 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Side 155 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Side 287 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India, East or West, or middle shore In Pontus, or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reign'd, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand ; for drink, the grape She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed She tempers dulcet creams...
Side 258 - Sir, believe me, upon my relation for what I tell you, the world shall not reprove. I have been in the Indies, where this herb grows, where neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more of my knowledge, have received the taste of any other nutriment in the world, for the space of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only: therefore, it cannot be, but 'tis most divine.