A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 5Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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animal antennæ Ants Aphides appear Aurelia bark become Bees Beetle belly body branches buds Butterfly called calyx Caterpillar cells claws colour composed consists corolla cotyledons covered devour dicotyledons distinguished divided drone Bee drones earth eggs eyes feelers feet female fibres fleshy flies flowers fore four furnished grow hair head hive holes honey inch inflorescence insects juice kind labourers larvæ leaf leaves legs length Linnæus males manner membrane middle monocotyledons motion mouth nature nest oblong observed organs peculiar perfect Pericarp petals petiole pinnated pistillum plants Polypus prey proboscis produced queen raceme resemble rings root round Sarcocarp scarcely seed seems seen side skin sometimes soon species Spider stamens stand stem sting substance surface swarm tail terminate Termites thick threads tion trees Triandria tribe trunk tubes umbel vegetable vessels Wasps whole wings wood woody worm young Zoophytes
Populaire passages
Pagina 11 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Pagina 198 - ... operations and manner of life are not less extraordinary. Their habitations are the inside of the branches of a tree, •which they contrive to excavate, by working out the pith almost to the extremity of the slenderest twig; the tree at the same time flourishing, as if it had no such inmate. When we first found the tree, we gathered some of the branches, and were scarcely less astonished than we should have been, to find that we had profaned a consecrated grove, where every tree upon being wounded...
Pagina 197 - ... up with a force much greater than we could have thought them able to conquer by any combination of their strength.
Pagina 175 - These apartments compose an intricate labyrinth, which extends a foot or more in diameter from the royal chamber on every side. Here the nurseries and magazines of provisions begin ; and, being separated by small empty chambers and galleries, which surround them, and communicate with each other...
Pagina 76 - ... variegations in the form of stripes and spots : the wings are very large, of a yellow colour, most elegantly varied with brown undulations and spots, and the lower pair are decorated by a very large eye-shaped spot on the middle of each, the iris or border of the spot being red, and the centre half red and half semi transparent white : the head or lantern is pale yellow, with longitudinal red stripes.
Pagina 25 - The body appears to be all over curiously adorned with a suit of polished sable armour, neatly jointed, and beset with multitudes of sharp pins, almost like the quills of a porcupine. It has six legs, the joints of which are so adapted, that it can, as it were, fold them up one within another ; and when it leaps, they all spring out at once, whereby its whole strength is exerted, and the body raised above two hundred times its own diameter. The young fleas are at first a sort of nits or eggs, which...
Pagina 190 - ... stopping up the different galleries and passages, which lead to the various apartments, particularly the royal chamber, all the entrances to which they fill up so artfully as not to let it be distinguishable, while it remains moist ; and externally it has no other appearance than that of a shapeless lump of clay. It is, however, easily found from its situation with respect to the other parts of the building, and by the crowds of labourers and soldiers which surround it, who show their loyalty...
Pagina 178 - ... during the rainy season, are apt to shelter themselves there, and to burrow through it, they very soon ruin the house, by weakening the fastenings and exposing it to the wet. In the mean time the posts will be perforated, in every direction, as full of holes as that timber in the bottoms of ships which has been bored by the worms, the fibrous and knotty parts, which are the hardest, being left to the last.
Pagina 181 - ... looks as if it had been dipped into thick mud that had been dried on. Under this covering they work, leaving no more of the stick and bark than is barely sufficient to support it, and frequently not the smallest particle, so that upon a very small tap with your...
Pagina 73 - Sounds do not always give us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody, nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the Field- Cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train, of Summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.