First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 páginas |
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... botanists would call ( a ) a conical , and ( b ) a fusiform root , the former resembling a cone , and the latter more exactly the spindle formerly used with the distaff ; the distinction is perhaps of little use . The changes effected ...
... botanists would call ( a ) a conical , and ( b ) a fusiform root , the former resembling a cone , and the latter more exactly the spindle formerly used with the distaff ; the distinction is perhaps of little use . The changes effected ...
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... Botanist is sometimes much tantalised by these plants , especially in tropical woods and forests . He sees their blossoms , but they are far beyond his reach , and when several different species occupy the trees , he cannot determine to ...
... Botanist is sometimes much tantalised by these plants , especially in tropical woods and forests . He sees their blossoms , but they are far beyond his reach , and when several different species occupy the trees , he cannot determine to ...
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... botanist to pronounce the butcher's broom , and some other plants which bear their flowers and fruit on the leaves , to be fronds ; and besides , some of the ferns bear their fructifica- tions in spikes distinct from the leaf , as in ...
... botanist to pronounce the butcher's broom , and some other plants which bear their flowers and fruit on the leaves , to be fronds ; and besides , some of the ferns bear their fructifica- tions in spikes distinct from the leaf , as in ...
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... botanist . To acquire this knowledge is indeed difficult , but as it cannot come by inspiration , it must be the reward of study ; a reward , however , which will well repay the trouble and labour of acquirement . We shall first attend ...
... botanist . To acquire this knowledge is indeed difficult , but as it cannot come by inspiration , it must be the reward of study ; a reward , however , which will well repay the trouble and labour of acquirement . We shall first attend ...
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... botanist , very rare , else much confusion would be created . The leaves of trees and shrubs , having lasted the time allotted them by nature , shrink and drop off , producing annually the phenomenon called the " fall of the leaf ...
... botanist , very rare , else much confusion would be created . The leaves of trees and shrubs , having lasted the time allotted them by nature , shrink and drop off , producing annually the phenomenon called the " fall of the leaf ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 369 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour,
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.