Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable Kingdom, in which Plants are Arranged According to the System of Natural Affinities, Volumul 2John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1835 - 1190 pagini |
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Pagina 547
... remarkable instance of the Divine displeasure , that in his wrath the Almighty destroyed the " mulberry trees with frost . " A simple , but to those acquainted with natural phenomena , a most emphatic mode of expression , for they drop ...
... remarkable instance of the Divine displeasure , that in his wrath the Almighty destroyed the " mulberry trees with frost . " A simple , but to those acquainted with natural phenomena , a most emphatic mode of expression , for they drop ...
Pagina 550
... remarkable among so many wholesome species for yielding a sap that is a violent poison ; but it must be noted that the juices of several plants that bear wholesome fruit is acrid . ( 1620. ) The banian or pagod tree of the Hindoos is ...
... remarkable among so many wholesome species for yielding a sap that is a violent poison ; but it must be noted that the juices of several plants that bear wholesome fruit is acrid . ( 1620. ) The banian or pagod tree of the Hindoos is ...
Pagina 570
... remarkable for their acrid , or rather caustic juices , so that their leaves and bark act as rube- faciants , and even as vesicatories . An ointment made from the spurge - laurel is by many persons preferred to savin for promoting the ...
... remarkable for their acrid , or rather caustic juices , so that their leaves and bark act as rube- faciants , and even as vesicatories . An ointment made from the spurge - laurel is by many persons preferred to savin for promoting the ...
Pagina 579
... remarkable a man- ner the structural peculiarities which distinguish two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom , that they have been referred successively by botanists of equal authority to both , and at others almost denied ...
... remarkable a man- ner the structural peculiarities which distinguish two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom , that they have been referred successively by botanists of equal authority to both , and at others almost denied ...
Pagina 592
... remarkable for its extreme fœtidity , and might pro- bably be applied to the same purposes as our indigenous C. olidum , one of the most intolerable of all stinking plants . These , like other vegetable substances peculiar for their ...
... remarkable for its extreme fœtidity , and might pro- bably be applied to the same purposes as our indigenous C. olidum , one of the most intolerable of all stinking plants . These , like other vegetable substances peculiar for their ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
1-celled abortion abound absent acrid adnate æstivation afford albumen albuminous seeds allies alternate angiospermous anthers Apopetalous angiospermous dicotyledons aromatic astringent axillary baccate bark bitter called calyx Cand Candolle capsular carpels cells chiefly colour common connate carpels corolla cotyledons deciduous decoction definite dehiscent dicotyledons differentially considered disk drupaceous eatable eaten embryo embryo straight equal in number erect esteemed exalbuminous exogenæ exserted exstipulate febrifuge filaments flavour fleshy flowers foliaceous fruit genera genus germen hence herbaceous hilum hypogynous imbricate in æstivation indehiscent inferior inflorescence juice Juss latter leaves Linneus lobes medicine monadelphous natives occasionally opposite ovarium ovary ovules pendulous perianth perigynous petals petioles pistilline placenta plants poisonous properties radicle rarely resembling resinous roots RULE seldom sepals shew shrubs simple solitary sometimes species stamens stamina stems stigma stigmata stipules style subtypes superior synpetalous trees tropical tube valvate in æstivation vegetable West Indies wood
Pasaje populare
Pagina 998 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Pagina 551 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Pagina 702 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pagina 545 - They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard: then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind, and makes it black; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust; and the inside is soft, tender and white, like the crumb of a penny loaf.
Pagina 759 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
Pagina 663 - fit dainties for ladies, they came so far, and cost so dear.
Pagina 545 - ... when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind: when the fruit is ripe, it is yellow and soft, and the taste is sweet and pleasant.
Pagina 993 - Tory pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days : one would blow up a feather in the air ; another would dart straws at it with much fury...
Pagina 990 - A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.
Pagina 549 - At Rome the fig was carried next to the vine, in the processions in honour of Bacchus, as the patron of plenty and joy; and Bacchus was supposed to have derived his corpulency and vigour, not from the vine, but from the fig. All these circumstances indicate that the fig contributed very largely to the support of man; and we may reasonably account for this from the facility with ; which it is cultivated in climates of moderate ! temperature.