Not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen from some invisible tree-top above, or... Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 47by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
| Thomas Belt - 1874 - 442 lehte
...American forests ; but not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white .j. ' stems and large palmatcd leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes...invisible tree-top above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are... | |
| Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 lehte
...forests. Not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing tip like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted...invisible tree-top above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, for the source of which one seeks around in vain, as the flowers that cause it are... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...begonias are abundant, and typical of tropical American forests ; but not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are... | |
| George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1892 - 672 lehte
...begonias are abundant, and typical of tropical American forests ; but not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain. "THE SHADOWS LENGTHEN. and a thousand... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...elegance. by tJje** ^-[astomffi, and succi _ cO loiired begonias and fl es^^ i . ; jcan forests ; but leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 514 lehte
...begonias are abundant, and typical of tropical American forests ; but not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks arcin vain, for the flowers that cause it are far... | |
| William E. Simmons - 1900 - 376 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabras. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...invisible treetop above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, for the source of which one seeks around in vain, as the flowers that cause it are... | |
| William E. Simmons - 1900 - 364 lehte
...palmated leaves standing up like great candelabras. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large 114 flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...invisible treetop above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, for the source of which one seeks around in vain, as the flowers that cause it are... | |
| William E. Simmons - 1900 - 356 lehte
...leaved begonias are abundant, and typical of tropical American forests. Not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabras. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have... | |
| Thomas Belt - 1985 - 460 lehte
...forests. Not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palrnated leaves standing np like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted...flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen from soine invisible tree-top above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, for the source of which... | |
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