Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable Kingdom, in which Plants are Arranged According to the System of Natural Affinities, Band 1John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1835 - 1190 Seiten |
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abortive abundant afford Agaricus Algæ allies animals apothecia Apothecium appear asci associated become Boletales Boletus botanists Brongniart Bryales called cells cellular cellules characters Charales chiefly collected colour common conceptacles Conferva contains curious dehiscence developed distinct distinguished distribution Ditto eaten ergot esteemed existence feet ferns filaments flocci floccose flowers foliage fossil Fries frondose fronds fructification fruit Fucales Fuci fungi fungus genera genus globules granules grasses Greville groups grow growth hence hymenium important included known leaves less Lichenales Lichens likewise Linnæus liverworts matter mosses Musci mushrooms natural normal genera normal genus numerous observed organs palms parasitic peculiar peridium peristome perithecium pileus plants poisonous present Pteridales receptacle regions resemblance seeds separated shew shewn similar soil sometimes species sporangia spores sporidia sporules stem stipes stomata strata structure subtype thallus thecæ tion trees tropical types and sections Uredo urns various vegetable vesicles vide zone
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Seite 177 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Seite 298 - I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage.
Seite 173 - Seeds, to our eye invisible, will find On the rude rock the bed that fits their kind ; There, in the rugged soil, they safely dwell, Till showers and snows the subtle atoms swell, And spread th...
Seite 262 - Fungus, that the effects are often very ludicrous. If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
Seite 112 - In one place the caves are only to be approached by a perpendicular descent of many hundred feet by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rocks. When the mouth of the cavern is attained, the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torch-light, by penetrating into the recesses of the rock, where the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the adventurers, who see nothing below them but the turbulent surf making its way into the chasms of the...
Seite 33 - In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman William, after his victory, found King Harold slain, he built Battle Abbey, which at last (as divers other monasteries) grew to a town enough populous. Thereabout is a place which, after rain, always looks red, which some have attributed to a very bloody sweat of the earth, as crying to heaven for revenge of so great a slaughter.
Seite 298 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Seite 385 - ... comes a district where wheat still abounds, but no longer exclusively furnishes bread, rice and maize becoming frequent. To this zone belong Portugal, Spain, part of France on the Mediterranean, Italy, and Greece ; further, the countries of the East, Persia, northern India, Arabia, Egypt, Nubia, Barbary, and the Canary Islands ; in these latter countries, however, the culture of maize or rice, towards the south, is always more considerable, and in some of them several kinds of Sorghum (Doura)...
Seite 385 - Rye is the next which becomes associated with these. This is the prevailing grain in a great part of the northern temperate zone, namely, in the south of Sweden and Norway, Denmark, and in all the lands bordering on the Baltic; the north of Germany, and part of Siberia. In the latter, another very nutritious grain, buck-wheat, is very frequently cultivated. In the zone where rye prevails, wheat is...
Seite 298 - ... depth of the rainy season, naked and alone; surrounded by savage animals and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection, and I confess that my spirits began to fail me.