The Flowering Plants of Great Britain, Volume 1Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 - Botany |
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... height of two or three 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 ...
... height of two or three 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 ...
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... height ; leaves erect and linear , fleshy : scapes slender , bearing a small greenish flower . Annual . This little plant , which is found in corn - fields and waste places , espe- cially such as have a gravelly soil , is distinguished ...
... height ; leaves erect and linear , fleshy : scapes slender , bearing a small greenish flower . Annual . This little plant , which is found in corn - fields and waste places , espe- cially such as have a gravelly soil , is distinguished ...
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... height , and the foliage has somewhat of a sea - green hue ; the bark is of light colour , and the flowers , which are in pendulous clusters , are yellow , and appear on the shrub in June . This plant was in former days called the ...
... height , and the foliage has somewhat of a sea - green hue ; the bark is of light colour , and the flowers , which are in pendulous clusters , are yellow , and appear on the shrub in June . This plant was in former days called the ...
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... height . The Cruciferous Order furnishes us with many of the vegetables which con- stitute our food . The Turnip , Cabbage , Radish , Horse - radish , and a variety of other important plants , have cruciform blossoms . Most vegetables ...
... height . The Cruciferous Order furnishes us with many of the vegetables which con- stitute our food . The Turnip , Cabbage , Radish , Horse - radish , and a variety of other important plants , have cruciform blossoms . Most vegetables ...
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... height of one or even two feet , well deserving its common name of Pickpocket , by the room which it occupies on valuable land . Its flowers are very small and white , and grow in little clusters , blooming all the summer . Its numerous ...
... height of one or even two feet , well deserving its common name of Pickpocket , by the room which it occupies on valuable land . Its flowers are very small and white , and grow in little clusters , blooming all the summer . Its numerous ...
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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!