The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain: By Anne Pratt, Volume 2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 |
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Pagina viii
... coloured Trefoil 59 3 108 artense Hare's - foot Trefoil . 59 9 109 maritimum . Teasel - headed Trefoil 59 6 109 incarnatum . Crimson Clover 59 7 110 stellatum . Starry - headed Trefoil 59 8 110 striatum . Soft Knotted Trefoil . 59 10 ...
... coloured Trefoil 59 3 108 artense Hare's - foot Trefoil . 59 9 109 maritimum . Teasel - headed Trefoil 59 6 109 incarnatum . Crimson Clover 59 7 110 stellatum . Starry - headed Trefoil 59 8 110 striatum . Soft Knotted Trefoil . 59 10 ...
Pagina 9
... colour to wool . A few of the plants of this order are tropical , but it consists chiefly of herbs , growing among hedges and trees in the cooler parts of Europe and Asia . The genus Parnassia is by many botanists included in this order ...
... colour to wool . A few of the plants of this order are tropical , but it consists chiefly of herbs , growing among hedges and trees in the cooler parts of Europe and Asia . The genus Parnassia is by many botanists included in this order ...
Pagina 11
... colour , and if dried and boiled with alum , they dye wool of a fine yellow hue . Those pellucid dots in the foliage are full of an essential oil , which , indeed , pervades the whole plant , and which is aromatic and astringent . The ...
... colour , and if dried and boiled with alum , they dye wool of a fine yellow hue . Those pellucid dots in the foliage are full of an essential oil , which , indeed , pervades the whole plant , and which is aromatic and astringent . The ...
Pagina 20
... colour ; they are few , and ex- pand in July and August . Reddish - coloured glandular serratures fringe its calyx , and its stamens are fifteen in number . Though rare in Scotland , it is not unfre- quent on the spongy bogs of England ...
... colour ; they are few , and ex- pand in July and August . Reddish - coloured glandular serratures fringe its calyx , and its stamens are fifteen in number . Though rare in Scotland , it is not unfre- quent on the spongy bogs of England ...
Pagina 21
... coloured blossom , marked with darker veins . The flower is very singular on account of its large fan- shaped nectaries , which consist of scales , each arranged opposite to a petal , and having their margins fringed with conspicuous ...
... coloured blossom , marked with darker veins . The flower is very singular on account of its large fan- shaped nectaries , which consist of scales , each arranged opposite to a petal , and having their margins fringed with conspicuous ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abundant Agrimony Alpine apple astringent awl-shaped beautiful beneath berries Bird's-foot blossoms botanists boughs bracts Bramble branches called calyx capsule carpels cherries Cinquefoil colour common corolla covered Crane's-bill crimson cultivated downy Dutch egg-shaped England erect Europe feet flavour flower-stalks flowers foliage French fruit garden genus gooseberry Greek green grows hairs hairy herb herbaceous herbalists John's-wort July and August June and July Lady's Mantle lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves pinnate legume lobes meadows Medick Mountain native nearly oblong odour pears petals pinnate places Plant annual Plant perennial pods pretty prickles purple purple clover rare raspberry remarks Rest-harrow root rose Saxifrage says Scotland seeds sepals serrated sessile shrub slender smooth soil sometimes species Spindle-tree spot spreading stalks stamens stem stipules strawberry sweet ternate thorns toothed tree Trefoil truly wild variety Vetch white flowers Willow-herb Wood-sorrel Wort writers yellow flowers
Populaire passages
Pagina 165 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Pagina 129 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Pagina 195 - THY fruit full well the school-boy knows, Wild bramble of the brake ! So, put thou forth thy small white rose ; I love it for his sake. Though woodbines flaunt and roses glow O'er all the fragrant bowers, Thou need'st not be ashamed to show Thy satin-threaded flowers...
Pagina xii - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene.
Pagina 165 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Pagina 234 - ... and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they broke down branches from the trees and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned...
Pagina 209 - Old garden rose-trees hedged it in, Bedropt with roses waxen-white Well satisfied with dew and light And careless to be seen. Long years ago it might befall, When all the garden flowers were trim, The grave old gardener prided him On .these the most of all.
Pagina 62 - Lotophagi) which whoso tastes, Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts, Nor other home nor other care intends, But quits his house, his country, and his friends...
Pagina 224 - ... forward in the name of God, graft, set, plant and nourish up trees in every corner of your ground ; the labour is small, the cost is nothing, the commodity is great ; yourselves shall have plenty, the poor shall have somewhat in time of want to relieve their necessity, and God shall reward your good minds and diligence.
Pagina 22 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire. Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.