First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 Seiten |
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... four pieces , with some bits of roasted meat , which the Turks in Egypt call kebab , and with this dish they are so delighted , that I have heard them wish they might enjoy it in Paradise . " Brown notices their mildness , and says they ...
... four pieces , with some bits of roasted meat , which the Turks in Egypt call kebab , and with this dish they are so delighted , that I have heard them wish they might enjoy it in Paradise . " Brown notices their mildness , and says they ...
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... four or five inches into the ground ; this was at least the case with all those which had been overturned with the winds , and lay near the road . ” * This superficial situation of the root may , per- haps , arise entirely from the ...
... four or five inches into the ground ; this was at least the case with all those which had been overturned with the winds , and lay near the road . ” * This superficial situation of the root may , per- haps , arise entirely from the ...
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James Lawson Drummond. the trunk which is subject to be under water , and four or five feet higher up , is greatly enlarged by prodigious buttresses , or pilasters , which in full grown trees project out on every side , to such a ...
James Lawson Drummond. the trunk which is subject to be under water , and four or five feet higher up , is greatly enlarged by prodigious buttresses , or pilasters , which in full grown trees project out on every side , to such a ...
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... four tenths of an inch thick , the centre of the palm being filled with pith . * The woody stem also varies greatly in size ; and the instances of trees attaining , in the lapse of ages , tɔ an enormous magnitude , are frequent on ...
... four tenths of an inch thick , the centre of the palm being filled with pith . * The woody stem also varies greatly in size ; and the instances of trees attaining , in the lapse of ages , tɔ an enormous magnitude , are frequent on ...
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... four inches and a half , being minuted , burnt only three minutes short of an hour : and a rush still of greater length has been known to burn one hour and a quarter . " " In a pound of dry rushes , avoirdu- pois , which I caused to be ...
... four inches and a half , being minuted , burnt only three minutes short of an hour : and a rush still of greater length has been known to burn one hour and a quarter . " " In a pound of dry rushes , avoirdu- pois , which I caused to be ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 369 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour,
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.