First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 páginas |
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... hair - like fibres which shoot out from the larger part , or body ; these branchlets are named radicles ( radicula ) , fibres , or rootlets , and are an- nually renewed ; the old ones become exhausted and die , and new radicles are ...
... hair - like fibres which shoot out from the larger part , or body ; these branchlets are named radicles ( radicula ) , fibres , or rootlets , and are an- nually renewed ; the old ones become exhausted and die , and new radicles are ...
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... hair , they made little holes , and into these fixed grains of millet - seed . The figure was then buried in sand , until these grains germinated ; it was then dug up , and the fine radicles and shoots were trimmed so as to imitate hair ...
... hair , they made little holes , and into these fixed grains of millet - seed . The figure was then buried in sand , until these grains germinated ; it was then dug up , and the fine radicles and shoots were trimmed so as to imitate hair ...
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... hair , scales , or other cloth- ing . The stem therefore is a caulis nudus aphyllus , a stem both leafless and naked . * See Fig . 19. ( b ) 12. CAULIS bulbifer , a bulb - bearing stem , as in some lilies , and other plants , which ...
... hair , scales , or other cloth- ing . The stem therefore is a caulis nudus aphyllus , a stem both leafless and naked . * See Fig . 19. ( b ) 12. CAULIS bulbifer , a bulb - bearing stem , as in some lilies , and other plants , which ...
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... hair , wool , feathers , and scales , it forms the external covering of most animals ; it composes the hoof of the ox , and the plumage of birds : the same substance which forms the claws of the lion , beams on the neck of the dove ...
... hair , wool , feathers , and scales , it forms the external covering of most animals ; it composes the hoof of the ox , and the plumage of birds : the same substance which forms the claws of the lion , beams on the neck of the dove ...
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... hair , bristles , or down , or rendered uneven by furrows , lines , or risings , cannot , with strict propriety , be ... hairs , bristles , & c .; CAULIS lævis , a stem , free from furrows , channels , or risings of any description ...
... hair , bristles , or down , or rendered uneven by furrows , lines , or risings , cannot , with strict propriety , be ... hairs , bristles , & c .; CAULIS lævis , a stem , free from furrows , channels , or risings of any description ...
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.