The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain: By Anne Pratt, Volume 2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 - Botany |
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... Spring Cinquefoil . Orange Alpine Cinquefoil Saw - leaved Hairy Cinquefoil Common Tormentil · White Cinquefoil Three - toothed Cinquefoil • Strawberry - leaved Cinquefoil Salad Burnet • • • Plum , Bullace , and Sloe · Bird Cherry ...
... Spring Cinquefoil . Orange Alpine Cinquefoil Saw - leaved Hairy Cinquefoil Common Tormentil · White Cinquefoil Three - toothed Cinquefoil • Strawberry - leaved Cinquefoil Salad Burnet • • • Plum , Bullace , and Sloe · Bird Cherry ...
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... Spring Vetch 8888 63 10 125 63 8 127 63 63 997 129 129 63 1 129 Common Vetch . 63 88 63 2 130 2a b 131 • Rough - podded Yellow Vetch 63 5 131 Hairy - flowered Yellow Vetch 63 6 131 Bush Vetch . 63 3 132 Smooth - podded Vetch 63 4 134 ...
... Spring Vetch 8888 63 10 125 63 8 127 63 63 997 129 129 63 1 129 Common Vetch . 63 88 63 2 130 2a b 131 • Rough - podded Yellow Vetch 63 5 131 Hairy - flowered Yellow Vetch 63 6 131 Bush Vetch . 63 3 132 Smooth - podded Vetch 63 4 134 ...
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... spring being of the most delicate green . In the autumn none of our native trees exhibits a brighter foliage , which is first of a dull ochrey yellow , then of deeper hue , and lastly of an orange rich enough to remind us of the maples ...
... spring being of the most delicate green . In the autumn none of our native trees exhibits a brighter foliage , which is first of a dull ochrey yellow , then of deeper hue , and lastly of an orange rich enough to remind us of the maples ...
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... spring , when the young , tender , green foliage is shooting forth , and when the small pink scales , which at first envelope the handsome lobed leaf , are just being scattered around the tree by every gust of wind . When autumn is on ...
... spring , when the young , tender , green foliage is shooting forth , and when the small pink scales , which at first envelope the handsome lobed leaf , are just being scattered around the tree by every gust of wind . When autumn is on ...
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... spring and lingering sometimes in autumn among the last of the flowers , is the most common of all our native species . Every one knows it , and most of us have bound it in the nosegay gathered in childhood from woods and thickets , and ...
... spring and lingering sometimes in autumn among the last of the flowers , is the most common of all our native species . Every one knows it , and most of us have bound it in the nosegay gathered in childhood from woods and thickets , and ...
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abundant Agrimony Alpine apple astringent awl-shaped beautiful beneath berries Bird's-foot blossoms botanists boughs bracts Bramble branches called calyx capsule carpels cherries Cinquefoil colour common corolla covered Crane's-bill crimson cultivated downy Dutch egg-shaped England erect Europe feet flavour flower-stalks flowers foliage French fruit garden genus gooseberry Greek green grows hairs hairy herb herbaceous herbalists John's-wort July and August June and July Lady's Mantle lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves pinnate legume lobes meadows Medick Mountain native nearly oblong odour pears petals pinnate places Plant annual Plant perennial pods pretty prickles purple purple clover rare raspberry remarks Rest-harrow root rose Saxifrage says Scotland seeds sepals serrated sessile shrub slender smooth soil sometimes species Spindle-tree spot spreading stalks stamens stem stipules strawberry sweet ternate thorns toothed tree Trefoil truly wild variety Vetch white flowers Willow-herb Wood-sorrel Wort writers yellow flowers
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Page 165 - 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 ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 129 - 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 195 - THY fruit full well the school-boy knows, Wild bramble of the brake ! So, put thou forth thy small white rose ; I love it for his sake. Though woodbines flaunt and roses glow O'er all the fragrant bowers, Thou need'st not be ashamed to show Thy satin-threaded flowers...
Page xii - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene.
Page 165 - 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!
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 209 - Old garden rose-trees hedged it in, Bedropt with roses waxen-white Well satisfied with dew and light And careless to be seen. Long years ago it might befall, When all the garden flowers were trim, The grave old gardener prided him On .these the most of all.
Page 62 - 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...
Page 224 - ... forward in the name of God, graft, set, plant and nourish up trees in every corner of your ground ; the labour is small, the cost is nothing, the commodity is great ; yourselves shall have plenty, the poor shall have somewhat in time of want to relieve their necessity, and God shall reward your good minds and diligence.
Page 22 - 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.