The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known, with Descriptions, History and Synonyms, and a Comprehensive Systematic Index

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H. G. Bohn, 1880 - Conifers - 484 pages
 

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Page 281 - ... a little more ; much confused in the centre, where they form a vesicular mass ; every alternate septum much smaller than the others, only half the whole number reaching the centre. Length from two inches and a half to three inches and a half. Diameter of cup one inch to one inch and a half ; depth of cup half an inch or somewhat more. This species appears to be the same as that described by Edwards and Haime under the name of Streptelasma corniculum.
Page 313 - Fruit pretty large, of a long pyramidal figure, about three inches and a half long, and two inches and a half in diameter.
Page 63 - ... a . spectator within them, supposing that thunderbolts or earthquakes had rifted its lofty and massy towers, spires, and buttresses ; the parts left standing might then in miniature give an idea of the rocks of Bhairog'hati. The great cedar pines, those gigantic sons of the snow, fringe these bare rocks, and fix their roots where there appears to be very little soil ; a few also of the larger deal pine are seen, but inferior trees do not aspire to grow here. The day is dull and rainy, and I cast...
Page 306 - As the tooth is two inches and a half long and one inch and a quarter broad, skeptics have doubted its human authenticity.
Page 375 - ... all the curious shells in this wonderful collection, the HAMMER OYSTER was what I wondered at most ; it is the most extraordinary shell in the world. It resembles a pick-ax, with a very short handle and a long head. The body of the shell is in the place of the handle of the instrument, and is four inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in diameter. What answered to the head of the pick-ax was seven inches long, and three quarters of an inch in diameter. This head terminates at each end...
Page 168 - Ovid. OVID also describes the sisters of Phaeton as having been turned into Larches. But by modern magic processes the custom is now reversed, and Larches are turned in phaetons for the sisters of our day; a decidedly delightful improvement on the old plan. The Western Larch is an open, spiry...
Page 386 - It is from three quarters of an inch, to an inch and a quarter in length, and from one third to half an inch in greatest breadth.
Page 281 - He says it affords excellent timber, which is very tough, and admirably adapted for boat building, for which purpose it is much used at Monterey. Mr. Hartweg met with it on the descent towards the sea on the mountains of San Antonio, sixty leagues south of Monterey, forming a small wood, extending along the beach, where the deep grass-green of its foliage formed a great contrast with the parched-up vegetation around it at the time. It is hardy, and well adapted for planting near the sea coasU No.
Page vii - Pinetum woburnense; or, A catalogue of coniferous plants in the collection of the duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, systematically arranged.
Page 254 - Alleghanies, at the distance of nearly 300 miles from the sea,. has given its name to this species of pine, which covers it almost exclusively, though it is rare on the neighboring summits. Nor is it found in any other part of the United States.

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