A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Islands of Porto Santo and the Desertas: Dichlamydeæ, Volume 1,Deel 1

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John van Voorst., 1868 - 731 pagina's
 

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Pagina 82 - Yet, parch'd with scalding thirst and hunger fierce, Though to delude them sent, could not abstain ; But on they roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera.
Pagina 498 - Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Pagina 576 - Sedibus optatis g.eminae super arbore sidunt, Discolor unde auri per ramos aura refulsit. Quale solet silvis brumali frigore viscum Fronde virere nova, quod non sua seminal arbos, Et croceo fetu teretes circumdare truncos : Talis erat species auri frondentis opaca Ilice; sic leni crepitabat bractea vento.
Pagina 316 - The Indian Fig is largely cultivated in Mexico,. Brazil, and the Canary Islands for the sake of this insect, furnishing the well-known rich crimson dye, Cochineal, of which upwards of 54,000 cwts. were imported into the United Kingdom in 1871.
Pagina 211 - Thus it was in the latter end of the 17th, and beginning of the 18th centuries...

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