The Flowering Plants of Great Britain, Volume 1Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 - Botany |
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... inches high ; but it occurs only on the pastures of the mountains of Wales or Scotland . It flowers in June and July , and is perennial . It is sometimes called Feathered Columbine , and the French term it Rue des prés . The name of the ...
... inches high ; but it occurs only on the pastures of the mountains of Wales or Scotland . It flowers in June and July , and is perennial . It is sometimes called Feathered Columbine , and the French term it Rue des prés . The name of the ...
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... inches high . Its dark rich purple stars , when half unfolded , glitter in the sunshine like satin , on account of the soft silky hairs with which the flower is covered externally , and which render the young buds extremely pretty ...
... inches high . Its dark rich purple stars , when half unfolded , glitter in the sunshine like satin , on account of the soft silky hairs with which the flower is covered externally , and which render the young buds extremely pretty ...
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... inches in 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 ...
... inches in 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 ...
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... inch thick , and is studded with sharp prickles about three - quarters of an inch in length , and the blossoms fifteen inches in diameter . But it is not the tropical waters only which have the beautiful lilies - the Lotus flowers , for ...
... inch thick , and is studded with sharp prickles about three - quarters of an inch in length , and the blossoms fifteen inches in diameter . But it is not the tropical waters only which have the beautiful lilies - the Lotus flowers , for ...
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... inches high , and at others coming up on pastures in most unwelcome luxuriance , and attaining the height of one or even two feet , well deserving its common name of Pickpocket , by the room which it occupies on valuable land . Its ...
... inches high , and at others coming up on pastures in most unwelcome luxuriance , and attaining the height of one or even two feet , well deserving its common name of Pickpocket , by the room which it occupies on valuable land . Its ...
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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!