Elements of Botany, Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables: Illustrated by Forty Plates, Volym 2Robert Desilver, 1827 |
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Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables Benjamin Smith 1766-1815 Barton,Robert Desilver Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2021 |
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Algæ already American anthers Asplenium rhizophyllum bark beautiful Bicornes blea botanists Botany called calyx capsule character class Dodecandria class Icosandria class Monadelphia class Monandria class Monoecia class Pentandria class Polyandria colour common corolla Cryptogamia Cunila Decandria Diadelphia Diandria Didynamia different species DIGYNIA dria embraces Enneandria epidermis female flowers female organs filaments florets following genera fructification fruit fungi furnished genera genus germ greater number Gynandria Hepaticæ hermaphrodite hermaphrodite flowers Hexandria illustration Jussieu Laurus leaves Linnæan Linnæus Linnæus's male flowers male organs materia medica mentioned MONOGYNIA Monopetalous Mosses native natural class natural order naturalist North-American observed Octandria order contains perianth pericarp Persoon petals pistil pith plants Plate pollen Polygamia Prælectiones principal Pyrola receptacle referred root seed-vessel seeds sexual method sexual system silicle Smith stamens stigma styles Syngenesia Tetradynamia Tetrandria Tetrapetalous tion Tournefort trees TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA United-States vegetables vessels Willdenow wood writers
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Sida 2 - O'er that the rising system, more complex, Of animals; and higher still, the mind...
Sida 149 - Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade; And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm; Shuts her sweet eye-lids to approaching night, And hails with freshened charms the rising light.
Sida 10 - Tegmcntum tertium memlinr.iaceum succjJum flexile". from its fine and thin plates, which are thought to bear some resemblance to the leaves of a book. Or, it is more probable, that the Latin word liber took its name from this portion of the bark ; in like manner as the English word book (from the Saxon hoc), may, perhaps, be ultimately traced to the word Pak, or Pauk, which, in the language of certain Asiatic tribes, such as the Curded, signifies the leaf (folium) of a vegetable.
Sida 87 - It may be conjectured, upon very plausible grounds, that these trees sometimes attain to the age of eight or nine hundred years:. ...an immense period of time for the existence of any species of organized bodies! THE class Monadelphia is by no means the least important in the sexual system. On the contrary, it • " Vrri amans homo", as Haller calk him.
Sida 68 - Swells into chearful hills ; where Marjoram And Thyme, the love of bees, perfume the air ; And where the Cynorrhodon with the rose For fragrance vies ; for in the thirsty soil Most fragrant breathe the aromatic tribes. There bid thy roofs high on the basking steep Ascend, there light thy hospitable fires, And let them see the winter morn arise, The summer evening blushing in the west...
Sida 20 - ... hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd, Who prompt to deeds accurs'd the mind : And those, the fiends, who near allied, O'er nature's wounds, and wrecks preside ; While Vengeance, in the lurid air, Lifts her red arm, expos'd and bare...