First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 sider |
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Side 17
... similar purpose in some parts of Italy ; but perhaps no people derive so much advantage from bulbous roots as the Kamtschatkans do from the Kamtschatka lily ( Lilium Camschatcense ) , called saranne in their language . At the period of ...
... similar purpose in some parts of Italy ; but perhaps no people derive so much advantage from bulbous roots as the Kamtschatkans do from the Kamtschatka lily ( Lilium Camschatcense ) , called saranne in their language . At the period of ...
Side 27
... similar purpose , as the creeping rest - harrow ( Ononis repens ) , and the single - seeded broom , which grow in the loose sands of the shore of Spain , and which latter plant , according to Osbeck , “ turns the most barren place into ...
... similar purpose , as the creeping rest - harrow ( Ononis repens ) , and the single - seeded broom , which grow in the loose sands of the shore of Spain , and which latter plant , according to Osbeck , “ turns the most barren place into ...
Side 30
... similar calyptra or veil is found in the roots of ferns , palms , and some other plants ; and Sprengel , with some appearance of truth , supposes it to be an organ of absorption . There is another small plant which grows in water ...
... similar calyptra or veil is found in the roots of ferns , palms , and some other plants ; and Sprengel , with some appearance of truth , supposes it to be an organ of absorption . There is another small plant which grows in water ...
Side 32
... similar artifice , to elude the vigilance of the custom - house officers . The water house - leek ( Pistia Stratiotes ) , common in American lakes and rivers , often produces a similar phenomenon . It grows in eddy water near the shore ...
... similar artifice , to elude the vigilance of the custom - house officers . The water house - leek ( Pistia Stratiotes ) , common in American lakes and rivers , often produces a similar phenomenon . It grows in eddy water near the shore ...
Side 38
... similar construction in the fig - trees of the island of Tanna , one of the New Hebridest , and it appears that sometimes these ribs separate from the main trunk and form cylin- drical roots of considerable thickness . Humboldt notices ...
... similar construction in the fig - trees of the island of Tanna , one of the New Hebridest , and it appears that sometimes these ribs separate from the main trunk and form cylin- drical roots of considerable thickness . Humboldt notices ...
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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.