English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 6. köideRobert Hardwicke, 1866 |
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5-partite acuminate acute Annual anthers anthers 2-celled apex axillary axils base berries Billot bracteoles bracts branches Brit calyx calyx-segments Calyx-tube Campanula Capsule cell ciliated Common cordate Corolla Corolla-tube cymes D. C. Prod deciduous decumbent dense drooping elongated England erect et Helv exserted Exsicc feet high filaments fleshy Flowers French fruit Gall genus genus of plants Germ German glabrous gland-tipped hairs hairy heaths Helv Henbane Herbs inch long Inflorescence Ireland lanceolate Late Summer limb Linn lobes longer margins Mullein nearly notch numerous oblong obtuse oval ovary ovate panicle pedicels Peduncles Perennial petioles Plant glabrous PLATE puberulent pubescent purple raceme Radical leaves rarely Reich Rootstock scarcely Scotland Seeds segments sepals serrate sessile short shorter shortly stalked Shrub slender slightly solitary SPECIES specimens Speedwell spreading Stamens Stem stem-leaves stigma strapshaped Style Summer and Autumn teeth terminal tube twice as long upper lip valves Verbascum yellow
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Page 109 - Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey...
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Page 61 - The ash generally carries its principal stem higher than the oak, and rises in an easy flowing line. But its chief beauty consists in the lightness of its whole appearance. Its branches at first keep close to the trunk and form acute angles with it ; but as they begin to lengthen they generally take an easy sweep, and the looseness of the leaves corresponding with the lightness of the spray, the whole forms an elegant depending foliage. Nothing can have a better effect than an old ash hanging from...
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Page 167 - And the Poet, faithful and far-seeing, Sees, alike in stars and flowers, a part Of the self-same, universal being, Which is throbbing in his brain and heart.
Page 61 - ... an easy sweep ; and the looseness of the leaves corresponding with the lightness of the spray, the whole forms an elegant depending foliage. Nothing can have a better effect than an old ash hanging from the corner of a wood, and bringing off the heaviness of the other foliage with its loose pendent branches ; and yet, in some soils, I have seen the ash lose much of its beauty in the decline of age. Its foliage becomes rare and meagre; and its branches, instead of hanging loosely, often start...
Page 167 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
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