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Página 17 - Chia was, among the Nahua races of ancient Mexico, as regularly cultivated as corn, and often used in connection with it. Indeed, it was one of the many kinds of meal in constant use and which appear to have gone then, as now, under the generic name of piuoli.
Página 16 - Report of the Geological Survey of the State of Missouri, including Field Work of 1873—1874, with 91 illustrations and an Atlas. Garland C. Broadhead, State Geologist. Printed by the authority and under the direction of the Bureau of Geology and Mines. Jefferson City, Regan & Carter, State Printers and Binders, 1874.
Página 10 - During the summer of 1873, in the prosecution of some botanical work in Southern Indiana...
Página 132 - ... beginning to wither, this stalk was separable from above downward into two, as shown in the upper part of the same figure. This, therefore, is a case in which long petioles to the cotyledons (of which there is no appearance in the seed), connate into one body, are developed and greatly lengthened in place of the radicle, which is thus simulated. It is the same as in Delphinium nudicaule of California, and some other species ; only in that genus the cotyledons expand and become foliaceous. In...
Página 16 - Localities are given for many of the species, and in several cases notes are added. 1874. Catalogue of the Plants of Ohio including Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mosses and Liverworts. By HC Beardslee. Painesville, Ohio, Jan uary, 1874.
Página 17 - Benth. The seeds are collected, roasted, and ground, in the native way, between two stones. This puts it in the condition in which I first saw it. It is used as a food by mixing it with water and enough sugar to suit the taste. It soon develops into a copious mucilaginous mass, several times the original bulk. The taste is somewhat suggestive of linseed meal. One soon acquires a fondness for it, and eats it rather in the way of a luxury than with any reference to the fact that it is exceedingly nutritious...
Página 119 - The attention of all our botanists is requested to this matter during the coming season, and specimens of flowers, fruit, and roots, fresh or dried, from any part of the country, may be sent to the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, and will be of service.
Página 43 - The leaves are then considered, principally as to their vernation and the author states it as his belief ''that the characters of vernation will not only help to distinguish allied species or doubtful varieties, but will also assist in unravelling the intricate questions of hybridity.
Página 51 - ... also sent specimens to Dr. Engelmann for identification, from whose report, as follows, it appears that both the species above mentioned have been heretofore confounded under the name of A. grandis Lindl., inapplicable to either. "Abies subalpina is the provisional name Dr. Engelmann gives to that fir which occupies the highest wooded regions up to the limits of vegetation in the Rocky Mountains, from Colorado northward and westward to Oregon.
Página 121 - The whole flower is spotted green and purple, like a diseased liver. Notwithstanding its vile odor and uncanny look, it is the most interesting of flowers. The tube is divided into three chambers by constrictions and valves furnished with backward-pointing bristles, the whole forming a trebly guarded fly-trap. The outer chamber alone gives out the carrion odor, attracted by which, insects enter, and finding themselves deceived try to escape, but the long recurved...