The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms, Del 2

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1866

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Side 1011 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Side 1028 - The leaves of some of the species are so filled with a resinous fluid, that the least degree of unusual repletion of the tissue causes it to be discharged ; thus some of them fill the air with fragrance after rain; and S. Molle and some others expel their resin with such violence when immersed in water as to have the appearance of spontaneous motion, in consequence of the recoil.'— Botánica I Register, t.
Side 591 - The Treasury of Botany, or Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Side 894 - ... state for three or four years, and declines for about as many more, until it ceases to be worth keeping. The fruit grows abundantly from all its branches, in long small clusters of from twenty to fifty grains ; when ripe it is of a bright red colour. After being gathered, it is spread on mats in the sun, when it loses its red colour, and becomes black and shrivelled as we see it The grains are separated from the stalks by hand-rubbing.
Side 884 - The fruit at first contains a clear insipid fluid, by which travellers allay their thirst ; afterwards this same liquor becomes milky and sweet, and it changes its taste by degrees as it acquires solidity, till at last it is almost as hard as ivory. The liquor contained in the young fruits becomes acid if they are cut from the tree and kept some time.
Side 850 - Passion and its attendant circumstances: thus the three nails— two for the hands, one for the feet— are represented by the stigmas; the five anthers indicate the five wounds; the rays of glory or, some say, the crown of thorns are represented by the rays of the 'corona;' the ten parts of the perianth represent the Apostles, two of them absent, — Peter who denied, and Judas who betrayed our Lord ; and the wicked hands of His persecutors are seen in the digitate leaves of the plant, and the scourges...
Side 764 - The amount of nutritive substance yielded by it, is to that of wheat, as 133 to 1, and to that of potatoes, as 44 to 1.
Side 1098 - The fat is then made into flat circular cakes and pressed, when the pure tallow extides in a liquid state and soon hardens into a white, brittle mass. Candles made from this get soft in hot weather, which is prevented by coating them with insect wax. A liquid oil is obtained from the seeds by pressing. The tree yields a hard wood, used by the Chinese for printing blocks, and its leaves are used in dyeing black. 201.
Side 718 - Another of the products of cassava is an intoxicating beverage called piwarrie, but the manner of preparing it is not calculated to render it tempting to Europeans. It is made by the women who chew cassava cakes and throw the masticated materials into a wooden bowl where it is allowed to ferment for some days, and then boiled. It is said to have an agreeable taste.
Side 1045 - The marking nut tree of India. The thick, fleshy receptacle bearing the fruit is of a yellow color when ripe, and is roasted and eaten. The unripe fruit is employed in making a kind of ink. The hard shell of the fruit is permeated by a corrosive juice, which is used on external bruises and for destroying warts. The juice, when mixed with quick-lime, is used to mark cotton or linen with an...

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