First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 sider |
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... thick above , and grows gradually smaller as it descends ; it is almost always perpendicular , and is generally simple , though sometimes branched . Good ex- amples of it occur in some common culinary veget- ables , as the carrot ...
... thick above , and grows gradually smaller as it descends ; it is almost always perpendicular , and is generally simple , though sometimes branched . Good ex- amples of it occur in some common culinary veget- ables , as the carrot ...
Side 22
... thick , and goes perpendicularly into the ground , as in the shepherd's purse ; " but this is a distinction too finely drawn . Some plants have roots , which , instead of strik- ing down into the soil , run in a horizontal direc- tion ...
... thick , and goes perpendicularly into the ground , as in the shepherd's purse ; " but this is a distinction too finely drawn . Some plants have roots , which , instead of strik- ing down into the soil , run in a horizontal direc- tion ...
Side 25
... thick woods we find them running in numbers upon the surface . The American trees , therefore , if planted in situations where , as they grow up , they would have to depend on their own roots , singly , for support , instead of being ...
... thick woods we find them running in numbers upon the surface . The American trees , therefore , if planted in situations where , as they grow up , they would have to depend on their own roots , singly , for support , instead of being ...
Side 28
... thick interwove With clustering florets , whose light anthers dance In the fresh breeze , like tiny topaz gems . Here the sweet rose would die . But she imbibes From arid sands , and salt - sea dew - drops , strength ; The native of the ...
... thick interwove With clustering florets , whose light anthers dance In the fresh breeze , like tiny topaz gems . Here the sweet rose would die . But she imbibes From arid sands , and salt - sea dew - drops , strength ; The native of the ...
Side 30
... thick - set , broad upper leaves , " till flowering , " then each flower sinks by the elongation of the top of the stem , where new ones are produced , and finally the whole herb subsides to the bottom , takes root there , ripens , and ...
... thick - set , broad upper leaves , " till flowering , " then each flower sinks by the elongation of the top of the stem , where new ones are produced , and finally the whole herb subsides to the bottom , takes root there , ripens , and ...
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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.