The English Cyclopaedia, 2. osa,2. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans, 1867 |
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... belonging to the Coal Flora , one - half at least of the species are ferns . They are in most cases desti- tute of fructification , so that they cannot be arranged according to the system in use for recent species ; and consequently M ...
... belonging to the Coal Flora , one - half at least of the species are ferns . They are in most cases desti- tute of fructification , so that they cannot be arranged according to the system in use for recent species ; and consequently M ...
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... belonging to this family live upon trees or plants of various kinds : they are of small size , and in the larva state have the appearance of oval or round scales , hence they are called Scale Insects . They are closely attached to the ...
... belonging to this family live upon trees or plants of various kinds : they are of small size , and in the larva state have the appearance of oval or round scales , hence they are called Scale Insects . They are closely attached to the ...
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... belonging to the family Fringillida . It has the following characters : -Beak conical , very thick at the base , tapering rapidly to the point ; culmen rounded ; the commissure slightly arched ; lower mandible nearly as large as the ...
... belonging to the family Fringillida . It has the following characters : -Beak conical , very thick at the base , tapering rapidly to the point ; culmen rounded ; the commissure slightly arched ; lower mandible nearly as large as the ...
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... belonging to the natural order Euphorbiacea . This genus was named by Mr. J. Smith from a speci- men grown in the Royal Gardens at Kew . It is remarkable for the fact that being dioecious , the pistiliferous flowers have ripened their ...
... belonging to the natural order Euphorbiacea . This genus was named by Mr. J. Smith from a speci- men grown in the Royal Gardens at Kew . It is remarkable for the fact that being dioecious , the pistiliferous flowers have ripened their ...
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... belonging to the natural order of Grasses . One of the species , C. Lachryma , has hard stony fruits , which are known by the name of Job's Tears . These fruits are supposed by some writers to be strengthening and diuretic . COLAPTES ...
... belonging to the natural order of Grasses . One of the species , C. Lachryma , has hard stony fruits , which are known by the name of Job's Tears . These fruits are supposed by some writers to be strengthening and diuretic . COLAPTES ...
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Anatida animal antennæ appear base beds bill bird Blainville body bones British brown called calyx carapace cavity cells characters claws coal colour Columbida common consists corolla cotyledons covered Crustacea Cuvier Decapods Dodo dorsal Duck Echinodermata edges eggs Egyptian Goose elytra external extremity feathers feet female fish flowers fossil fruit Gadwall Gavial genera genus genus of Plants Goose Gray head inches inhabits insects Islands joints Lamarck larvæ leaves legs length Limestone Lindley Linn Linnæus male mandible membrane mouth native natural order nearly neck nostrils oblong observed organs ovary pair petals placed Plants belonging plumage portion posterior rays remarkable resembling round scales seeds sepals shell short side slender species specimen spines stamens stem strata substance surface Swainson tail tarsi teeth Temminck terminal thick thorax toes tooth transverse trees tube upper mandible vegetable wings yellow young
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Page 521 - 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 239 - The full-grown condor measures, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail...
Page 81 - 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 51 - That this venenation shooteth from the eye, and that this way a basilisk may empoison, although thus much be not agreed upon by authors, some imputing it unto the breath, others unto the bite, it is not a thing impossible. " For eyes receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other. For the visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially, but, streaming in corporal raies, do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they...
Page 409 - Luidia to tha 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.
Page 81 - Frankfort, when, about ten o'clock, the pigeons which I had observed flying the greater part of the morning northerly, began to return in such immense numbers as I never before had witnessed. " Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance; they were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot, in several strata deep, and so close together that, could shot have reached...
Page 81 - ... a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the 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.
Page 349 - We frequently followed them, and found that afterwards the old ones went each their way alone, or in couples, and left the two young ones together, which we called amarriage.
Page 81 - When they have frequented one of these places for some time, the appearance it exhibits is surprising. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with their dung ; all the tender grass and underwood destroyed ; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe.
Page 339 - SAW the picture of a strange fowle hong out upon a clotb, and myselfe, with one or two more then in company, went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest...