 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...  The Nicaragua Canal - Page 92by William E. Simmons - 1900 - 334 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 442 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white .j. ' stems and large palmatcd leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...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 far overhead out of... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 382 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra, Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...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 far overhead out of... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 416 lehte
...ceeropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delieious perfume, the souree of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing tip like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...lost in the great overshadowing crown of verdure. Numerous babbling brooks intersect the forest, with moss-covered stones and fern-clad nooks. One's... | |
 | 1890 - 664 lehte
...Cecropia trees, with their white stems, and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks in vain, for the flowers which cause it are far overhead out of sight,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 518 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...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 far overhead out of... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1892 - 672 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...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 epiphytes perch... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...; 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 far overhead out of...lost in the great overshadowing crown of verdure." Although, as has been shown elsewhere, it may be doubted whether light directly produces floral colour,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 490 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers,...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around 28 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE CHAP. in vain, for the flowers that... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1985 - 460 lehte
...cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palrnated leaves standing np like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large 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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