An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of the Linnean System, Volume 2C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... slightly notched at the end . Fertile flowers in the bosom of the lower leaves ; barren ones amongst the upper leaves , which are crowded together . Petals thick , flat , bowed inwards at the edge like a crescent . When magnified they ...
... slightly notched at the end . Fertile flowers in the bosom of the lower leaves ; barren ones amongst the upper leaves , which are crowded together . Petals thick , flat , bowed inwards at the edge like a crescent . When magnified they ...
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... slightly three - lobed , the sides reflexed . The upper petals approaching ; the two lateral ones reflexed . Spur conical , shorter than the germen . Floral - leaves longer than the blossom . ORCHIS MACULA'TA . ( O. maculata . ) ( 0 ...
... slightly three - lobed , the sides reflexed . The upper petals approaching ; the two lateral ones reflexed . Spur conical , shorter than the germen . Floral - leaves longer than the blossom . ORCHIS MACULA'TA . ( O. maculata . ) ( 0 ...
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... slightly pubescent . Fruit - stalks longer than the floral leaves . Capsule hairy . Corymb hairy , at last extending into a very long and leafy bunch . Fruit large . Bloss . pale , flesh - coloured , white , or with bloody streaks , not ...
... slightly pubescent . Fruit - stalks longer than the floral leaves . Capsule hairy . Corymb hairy , at last extending into a very long and leafy bunch . Fruit large . Bloss . pale , flesh - coloured , white , or with bloody streaks , not ...
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... slightly scolloped ; fruit - stalks longer than the floral - leaves ; stems spreading , ligneous below ; capsule four - valved . E. ) Fl . Dan . 342- ( E . Bot . 1027. E . ) - Hall . Hist . 16. 1 - Jacq . Coll . 4. 5- H. Ox . iii . 22 ...
... slightly scolloped ; fruit - stalks longer than the floral - leaves ; stems spreading , ligneous below ; capsule four - valved . E. ) Fl . Dan . 342- ( E . Bot . 1027. E . ) - Hall . Hist . 16. 1 - Jacq . Coll . 4. 5- H. Ox . iii . 22 ...
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... slightly notched at the end ; lower one with a few purplish spots on the inside . Betwixt the two stamens it is not uncommon to find two other shorter filaments without anthers ; and I once found them with anthers . Germen upon a yellow ...
... slightly notched at the end ; lower one with a few purplish spots on the inside . Betwixt the two stamens it is not uncommon to find two other shorter filaments without anthers ; and I once found them with anthers . Germen upon a yellow ...
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acute Anglesey Anthers awned barren base Ben Lawers berries Bloss blossom blunt bogs bracteas branches Brit brown calyx Cambridgeshire Caps capsules Catkins cloven colour common Curt cylindrical ditches downy edges egg-shaped erect feet high fertile spikes five Floral-leaves florets flowers four fruit fruit-stalks germen glaucous glumes GRASS green Grev hairs hairy half heart-shaped hedges Hill Hook Huds inches high inches long Involucrum keel leaf leaf-stalks leafy Leaves spear-shaped Linn Linnæus Lond marshes meadows membranous moist nearly Nectary Norfolk numerous oblong obtuse ovate Painswick pale Panicle pastures Pentland Hills petals pistils purple purplish Purton ribs root Root-leaves rough Scot Scotland seeds segments serrated sessile Sheaths sheep shorter side slender smooth sometimes species stalks stamens Stem stigmas strap-shaped straw Style Suffolk Summits Teesdale terminal tree Umbels upper upright valves Warwickshire Welsh Bot Whole plant whorl Willd Winch Woods Woodw Woodward Worcestershire yellow
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Página 253 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Página 411 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 366 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 328 - The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Página 80 - In a farm-yard near the middle of this village stands at this day, a row of pollard-ashes, which, by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that in former times they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Página 528 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 336 - Hast thou seen in winter's stormiest day The trunk of a blighted oak, Not dead, but sinking in slow decay, Beneath time's resistless stroke, Round which a luxuriant Ivy...
Página 473 - Oft hast thou decked, a favourite flower. Flower of the wild ! whose purple glow Adorns the dusky mountain's side, Not the gay hues of Iris' bow, Nor garden's artful varied pride, With all its wealth of sweets could cheer, Like thee, the hardy mountaineer. Flower of his heart!
Página 247 - Let fortune's gifts at random flee, They ne'er shall draw a wish frae me, Supremely blest wi' love and thee, In the Birks of Aberfeldy.