 | Wm. S. Mayo - 1849 - 542 pagina’s
...their long arms far over the shore below. The trees generally grew wide apart, and there was little or no underwood, but many of the trunks were wreathed...plant of this kind, ascending with an incalculable prodigality of lignin, by innumerable convolutions, would stretch itself out, and, embracing several... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 pagina’s
...wreathed with the verdure of parasite» and creepere, so аз to shut up, mostly, the forest vistas vith immense columns of green leaves and flowers. The stems of some of these creepere were truly wonderful : one, from which depended large bunches of starlet berrie?, had, not... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pagina’s
...wreathed with the verdure of parasites and creepers so that the forest vistas were often shut off by immense columns of green leaves and flowers. The stems...depended large bunches of scarlet berries, had, not (infrequently, stems as large as a man's body. In some cases one huge plant of this kind, ascending... | |
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... descent. The gigantic trees grew quite on the brink, many of them throwing their long arms far over the shore below. The trees generally grew wide apart, and there was little or no underwood, but many of the trunks were wreathed with the verdure of... 