The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...R.N. Rose, 1821 - Natural history |
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... berry , & c . We shall here pass by several of the less important systems that are merely alterations of the foregoing . These alterations consist sometimes of a single circumstance , of which the former authors had taken no notice . Of ...
... berry , & c . We shall here pass by several of the less important systems that are merely alterations of the foregoing . These alterations consist sometimes of a single circumstance , of which the former authors had taken no notice . Of ...
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... Berries , and all succulent fruits , cannot disperse themselves : they fall to the ground , and their soft skins nourish the young plant . Many birds , and other animals , feed on these ; they carry them away , and having eaten the ...
... Berries , and all succulent fruits , cannot disperse themselves : they fall to the ground , and their soft skins nourish the young plant . Many birds , and other animals , feed on these ; they carry them away , and having eaten the ...
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... berries of the hippomane or manchineel tree , and goats on the conium maculatum or medicinal hemlock . In the fol- lowing sections , therefore , we shall take our examples from plants employed as foods , cordials , or aromatics , by the ...
... berries of the hippomane or manchineel tree , and goats on the conium maculatum or medicinal hemlock . In the fol- lowing sections , therefore , we shall take our examples from plants employed as foods , cordials , or aromatics , by the ...
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... berry , but not eatable . 1. Plantain - tree . Musa Paradisiaca . - LINN . This is cultivated in all the islands of the West Indies , where the fruit serves the Indians for bread ; and some of the white people also prefer it to most ...
... berry , but not eatable . 1. Plantain - tree . Musa Paradisiaca . - LINN . This is cultivated in all the islands of the West Indies , where the fruit serves the Indians for bread ; and some of the white people also prefer it to most ...
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... berries , which , when ripe , open by the heat of the sun , emitting a great many small dark - coloured seeds , which serve as food for some species of the dove . 3. The multifida , or French physic - nut , with leaves many - parted and ...
... berries , which , when ripe , open by the heat of the sun , emitting a great many small dark - coloured seeds , which serve as food for some species of the dove . 3. The multifida , or French physic - nut , with leaves many - parted and ...
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Page 46 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 634 - Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen...
Page 637 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is — Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 632 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 635 - By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple arid gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. -^Now came still evening. on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests I Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale...
Page 545 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for, though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Page 635 - I led her blushing like the Morn ; all Heaven, And happy constellations, on that hour Shed their selectest influence ; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill ; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs Whispered it to the woods, and from their -wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star On his hill top to light the bridal lamp.
Page 545 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices; for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Page 44 - ... and neatly lined in the bottom and sides with grass; the whole is then covered with leaves, and heavy stones laid upon them: in this state it undergoes a second fermentation, and becomes sour, after which it will...
Page 544 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat, in the middle of the day ; and though I continued there till the 13th of November, yet the work remained unfinished.