The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain: By Anne Pratt, Volume 2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 |
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Pagina 8
By Anne Pratt Anne Pratt. 5 3 po Na Stem of th perer bush grow there parts Ornam FOL John's Worts is commonly employed by dyers in Quito ,
By Anne Pratt Anne Pratt. 5 3 po Na Stem of th perer bush grow there parts Ornam FOL John's Worts is commonly employed by dyers in Quito ,
Pagina 10
... Stem herbaceous , erect , with four somewhat winged angles , branched ; leaves oblong , egg - shaped , with pel- lucid dots ; sepals erect , lanceolate . Plant perennial . This species grows commonly in damp places , having stems one or ...
... Stem herbaceous , erect , with four somewhat winged angles , branched ; leaves oblong , egg - shaped , with pel- lucid dots ; sepals erect , lanceolate . Plant perennial . This species grows commonly in damp places , having stems one or ...
Pagina 11
... stems . A lovely plant it is , with its wealth of golden flowers growing on a branched stem one or two feet high , and having its yellow petals profusely dotted with black . The leaves are strongly ribbed , and of delicate green ...
... stems . A lovely plant it is , with its wealth of golden flowers growing on a branched stem one or two feet high , and having its yellow petals profusely dotted with black . The leaves are strongly ribbed , and of delicate green ...
Pagina 16
... Stem herbaceous , erect , 4 - sided , with rounded angles ; leaves nearly destitute of dots ; sepals reflexed , elliptical , blunt . Plant perennial . This is not a common plant , and rarely occurs in any quantity . It has much the ...
... Stem herbaceous , erect , 4 - sided , with rounded angles ; leaves nearly destitute of dots ; sepals reflexed , elliptical , blunt . Plant perennial . This is not a common plant , and rarely occurs in any quantity . It has much the ...
Pagina 18
... stem is about two feet high ; the leaves are rather large and distant . Though the yellow petals are without glands , the calyx and bracts . are beautifully fringed with them , and form a very dis- tinctive mark in this species from any ...
... stem is about two feet high ; the leaves are rather large and distant . Though the yellow petals are without glands , the calyx and bracts . are beautifully fringed with them , and form a very dis- tinctive mark in this species from any ...
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abundant Agrimony apple astringent awl-shaped beautiful beneath berries Bird's-foot blossoms botanists boughs bracts Bramble branches buds called calyx calyx-teeth capsules carpels cattle cherries Clover colour common Crane's-bill crimson cultivated delicate downy Dutch England erect Europe flavour flower-stalks flowers flowers in June foliage French fruit garden genus grass Greek green grows hairs hairy herb herbaceous herbalists John's Wort July and August June and July lanceolate land leaf leaves pinnate legume Linnæus lobes Lotus meadows Medick Mountain native nearly oblong odour Oxalis stricta pastures pears petals pinnate places Plant annual Plant perennial pods pretty prickles purple purple clover rare raspberry remarks Rest-harrow roots rose roundish says seeds sepals serrated sessile shrub slender smooth soil sometimes species Spindle-tree spot spreading stalks stamens stem stipules strawberry sweet ternate thorns tree Trefoil umbels variety Vetch white flowers Willow-herb Wood-sorrel writers yellow flowers
Populaire passages
Pagina 159 - 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 123 - 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 193 - 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 159 - 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 232 - ... 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 56 - 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 220 - ... 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 18 - 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.