Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 2. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1866 |
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... ovary surrounded by a short staminiferous nectary ; the capsule fleshy , 5-12 - celled , opening by valves from the top to the base , with a dis- sepiment in the middle of each valve ; the placenta thick , triangular , central ; the ...
... ovary surrounded by a short staminiferous nectary ; the capsule fleshy , 5-12 - celled , opening by valves from the top to the base , with a dis- sepiment in the middle of each valve ; the placenta thick , triangular , central ; the ...
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... ovary , with a part of the calyx cut away ; 4 , a transverse section of a fruit . stigmas 5-6 ; leaves like the preceding , but not emarginate . An elegant tree , native of South America , and epiphytical on larger trees . The trunk is ...
... ovary , with a part of the calyx cut away ; 4 , a transverse section of a fruit . stigmas 5-6 ; leaves like the preceding , but not emarginate . An elegant tree , native of South America , and epiphytical on larger trees . The trunk is ...
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... ovary , surrounded by a fleshy annular hypogynous disc ; the ovules several , ascending ; simple style ; trifid stigma ; the fruit capsular , 3 - celled , 3 - valved , with a septicidal dehiscence ; the placenta very large , 3 ...
... ovary , surrounded by a fleshy annular hypogynous disc ; the ovules several , ascending ; simple style ; trifid stigma ; the fruit capsular , 3 - celled , 3 - valved , with a septicidal dehiscence ; the placenta very large , 3 ...
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... ovary beneath on cylindrical downy stalks . Panicle terminal . Flowers large , and bright yellow . The trunk yields the gum Kuteera , which in the North - Western Provinces of India is substituted for Tragacanth . C. insigne grows in ...
... ovary beneath on cylindrical downy stalks . Panicle terminal . Flowers large , and bright yellow . The trunk yields the gum Kuteera , which in the North - Western Provinces of India is substituted for Tragacanth . C. insigne grows in ...
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... ovary 3 - celled ; stigmas 3 , sessile ; drupe fibrous ; putamen with three b Cocoa - Nut Palm ( Cocos nucifera ) . a , lower portion of the spathe opened ; b , branchlet , with female flowers the males on the upper end dropped off ; c ...
... ovary 3 - celled ; stigmas 3 , sessile ; drupe fibrous ; putamen with three b Cocoa - Nut Palm ( Cocos nucifera ) . a , lower portion of the spathe opened ; b , branchlet , with female flowers the males on the upper end dropped off ; c ...
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Page 585 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Page 85 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Page 85 - I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and so close together, that, could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals.
Page 85 - ... inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks, and load their horses with them. By the Indians, a pigeon roost or breeding-place is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion.
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Page 469 - ... gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.
Page 469 - I expected, a Luidia came up in the dredge, a most gorgeous specimen. As it does not generally break up...
Page 49 - As for the generation of the basilisk, that it proceedcth from a cock's egg, hatched under a toad or serpent, it is a conceit as monstrous as the brood itself.
Page 591 - It certainly would do so, if, immediately after drinking his fill, ho were galloped hard, but not if he were suffered to quench his thirst more frequently when at rest in the stable. The horse that has free access to water will not drink so much in the course of a day as another who, to cool his parched mouth, swallows as fast as he can, and knows not when to stop.
Page 85 - ... to fell them in such a manner, that, in their descent, they might bring down several others ; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.