Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester County...Pennsylvania |
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1-celled ½ an inch 12 inches long 3-lobed acuminate acute Akenes albumen aments anthers apex apothecia axillary base bracts branches Calyptra Calyx Capsule carpels Cestr ciliate clusters common Corolla corymbs Culms dense dioicous disk drupe elongated erect feet high fleshy florets frequent Fronds fruit glaucous globose glumes hairy half an inch Heads of flowers herbs imbricated inches in length involucre July June lance-linear lance-oblong lanceolate leaflets leafy leaves alternate Legume linear lobes low grounds margin membranaceous Moist monoicous naked nearly numerous oblong obtuse Octo oval ovary ovate ovoid pale palea panicle pedicels peduncles Perennial Perianth Peristome Petals petioles pistillate plant pubescent purple purplish racemes Radical leaves scales Scape seeds Sepals Sept serrate sessile sheaths short slender smooth smoothish solitary sometimes species spikelets spikes Stamens Stem stem-leaves stigmas stipules style subsessile subulate summit tapering terete terminal Thallus Tournef trees umbels upper verticillate woodlands
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Page 171 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And ere...
Page 71 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 280 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 45 - 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.
Page 146 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though: the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows...
Page 204 - Two brother swains, of Collin's gentle name, The same their features, and their forms the same, With rival love for fair Collinia sigh, Knit the dark brow, and roll the unsteady eye. With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, And soothes with smiles the jealous pair by turns.
Page xxxiv - ... particulars in which the plants it embraces agree among themselves, and differ from other groups of the same rank. This complete analysis being carried through the system, from the primary divisions down to the species, it is evident that the study of a single plant of each group will give a correct general idea of the structure, habits, and even the sensible properties, of the whole.
Page 9 - The wood of this magnificent tree is highly valued in many branches of the mechanic art, — especially the variety called yellow poplar, which is generally to be known by its thicker and more deeply furrowed bark. The bark of the root, and young tree, is a good aromatic bitter. "Many people," says KALM, "believe its roots to be as efficacious against the fever as the Jesuit's Bark.
Page xxix - The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell, Strange mansion ! in the bottom of a well, Questions are then the windlass and the rope That pull the grave old gentlewoman up...
Page x - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.