The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, Volumen1,Parte1George Luxford, Edward Newman J. Van Voorst, 1842 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 32 - ... are one and the same plant, only in different stages of development, but that it is difficult to state which is the original. The late Professor Meyen (Taylor's Ann. Nat. Hist., August, 1841) remarks on this statement, that these Protococci are not plants, but animals, the Eugkna sanguined and E.
Página 45 - The spring tints of the sycamore are rich, tender, glowing, and harmonious ; in summer its deep green hue accords well with its grand and massive form, and the brown and dingy reds of its autumnal tints harmonise well with the mixed grove to which they give a fine depth of tone.
Página 26 - ... ones to the very ground, pendulous and playful as the most graceful birch or willow, and visibly obedient to the feeblest breath of air.
Página 48 - ... says Professor Schomburgh, " I nevertheless cannot abstain from noting the astonishment by which I was seized on seeing it used for the first time. While travelling, a deer was discovered browsing in the high grass before us. One of the Indians took a poisoned spike, and fixed it to his arrow. Cautiously he stole upon the unsuspecting deer, and shot the arrow into its neck ; it made a jump in the air, fled with the speed of the wind before us, but had scarcely run forty yards, when it fell to...
Página 26 - ... of February, it has one entire branch self-productive, and exuberantly profuse in Female berries, full, red, rich, and luscious; from which I have raised 17 plants, every one of which already markedly partakes largely of the parents
Página 192 - These two opposing theories are, briefly stated, as follows: (1) Original deposition. — The ores were formed at the same time as the rocks which inclose them, having been deposited in a sea or basin along with the sandstones and shales which now accompany them.
Página 35 - I found that it was used for the p\irpose of giving their wadmal a yellow dye, which is done by merely boiling the cloth in water with a quantity of the Lycopodium, and some leaves of Vaccinium Uliginosum (the Bog Whortleberry). The colour imparted by this process, to judge from some cloth shown me, was a pale and pleasant, though not a brilliant, yellow.
Página 189 - JANUARY 1842. Read, Notes on Preserving the Colour of Plants intended for the Herbarium. By Mr WILLIAM EVANS. It is well known to every one who has had any experience in the drying of specimens, that, while many plants are easily preserved by the ordinary means of placing them between layers of absorbent paper, and subjecting them to certain degrees of pressure — there are others that cannot be so readily managed; and some are even so constant in their tendency to turn back in drying, that this...
Página 125 - A plant," says this elegant writer, on collecting some specimens near the Bay of Baia, " gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is like the hair of a friend, — more dear to memory than even a portrait ; because it excites the imagination without attempting to fill it.
Página 122 - Manual of the British Marine Algae, containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of all the known British Species of SeaWeeds, with Plates to illustrate all the Genera. By...