Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a LadyJ. White, 1802 - 395 pagina's |
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Pagina 406 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Pagina 62 - Every one of these leaves, which are white above and red underneath, and form a kind of crown round the flower, appearing to be nothing more than little petals, are in reality so many true flowers; and every one of those tiny yellow things also which you see in the centre, and which at first you have perhaps taken for nothing but stamens, are real flowers.
Pagina 197 - Enter Othello. Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor % mandragora, Nor all the drowfy fyrups of the world, Shall ever med'cine thee to that fweet fleep Which thou h ow'dft yefterday.
Pagina 62 - Pull out one of the white leaves from the flower, you will think at first that it is flat from one end to the other, but look carefully at the end by which it was fastened to the flower, and you will see that this end is not flat, but round and hollow, in form of a tube, and that a little thread ending in two horns, issues from the tube ; this thread is the forked style of the flower, which, as you now see, is flat only at top.
Pagina 424 - ... continued Beckendorff to Vivian. " I think, sir, that it is—" " Ah ! I see it's westerly. — Well ! if this weather continue, the succession may still last another month. You will be interested to know, Mr. von Philipson, that the flower comes out at the same joint with the leaf, on a peduncle near three inches long; round the centre of it are two radiating crowns ; look, look, sir ! the inner inclining towards the centre column — now examine this well, and I'll be with you in a moment.
Pagina 6 - Rare geniufes ! \vhofe vaft knowledge and folid labours, confecrated to Botany, render them worthy of that immortality which they have acquired. For till this part of natural hiftory falls into oblivion, the names of John and Cafpar Bauhin will live along with it in the memory of mankind'.
Pagina 25 - In the whole of this tribe you will remark that the stems are simple and unbranched, the leaves entire, never cut or divided ; observations which confirm the analogy of the flower and fruit in this family, by the prevailing similarity in the other parts of the plant. By bestowing some attention upon these particulars, and making them familiar by frequent observation, you will be in a condition to determine} by an attentive inspection of a plant, whether it be of the liliaceous tribe or not ; and...
Pagina 210 - Upon the first discovery of the New World, as America was boastingly called, every thing found there was represented as wonderful. Strange stories were related of the plants and animals they met with, and those which were sent to Europe had pompous names given them. One of these is the Marvel of Peru, the only wonder of which i<s, the variety of colours in the flower."— ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS ON BOTANY.