The Flowering Plants of Great Britain, Volume 1Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 - Botany |
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... feet high ; its leaves are thrice pinnate , the leaflets three - cleft , and they are covered with a sea - green_powder . When the plant thrives well , the stem usually becomes hollow . The flowers have an unpleasant odour ; they are ...
... feet high ; its leaves are thrice pinnate , the leaflets three - cleft , and they are covered with a sea - green_powder . When the plant thrives well , the stem usually becomes hollow . The flowers have an unpleasant odour ; they are ...
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... feet . This Adonis , as well as some other species , are frequent as garden flowers . It is somewhat acrimonious , but less so than the exotic kinds ; one of these ( Adonis Capensis ) , which grows wild on the mountains of the Cape of ...
... feet . This Adonis , as well as some other species , are frequent as garden flowers . It is somewhat acrimonious , but less so than the exotic kinds ; one of these ( Adonis Capensis ) , which grows wild on the mountains of the Cape of ...
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... feet high , and of a bright pale green . The plant is conspicuous on the bog , where it towers above the bog asphodel , and the marsh orchis , and the ivy - leaved bell- flowers , and many other lovely plants of the marsh land ; for ...
... feet high , and of a bright pale green . The plant is conspicuous on the bog , where it towers above the bog asphodel , and the marsh orchis , and the ivy - leaved bell- flowers , and many other lovely plants of the marsh land ; for ...
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... feet high . It flowers in June , and the blossoms are of pale yellow , and very small size . It is one of the most acrid of the crowfoots , and in former times was in frequent use as a blister ; but it is a very unsafe application , for ...
... feet high . It flowers in June , and the blossoms are of pale yellow , and very small size . It is one of the most acrid of the crowfoots , and in former times was in frequent use as a blister ; but it is a very unsafe application , for ...
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... feet , with a stom sometimes as thick as a man's finger ; whereas on a barren field its stem is not larger than a wheat - straw . Its creeping roots , however , always characterise it , even when in gardens . Cattle reject it as food ...
... feet , with a stom sometimes as thick as a man's finger ; whereas on a barren field its stem is not larger than a wheat - straw . Its creeping roots , however , always characterise it , even when in gardens . Cattle reject it as food ...
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Page 8 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. And Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.
Page 124 - Hence these shades Are still the abodes of gladness ; the thick roof Of green and stirring branches is alive And musical with birds, that sing and sport In wantonness of spirit; while below The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, Chirps merrily.
Page 234 - ... and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they broke down branches from the trees and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned...
Page 197 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 181 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Page 110 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.
Page 197 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!
Page 150 - Lotophagi) which whoso tastes, Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts, Nor other home nor other care intends, But quits his house, his country, and his friends: The three we sent, from off th...
Page 197 - Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds ! Ye signs and wonders of the elements ! Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise ! Thou, too, hoar Mount ! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene, Into the depth of clouds that veil thy breast, — Thou too again, stupendous Mountain ! thou...
Page 196 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God!