The London Journal of Botany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of ... Plants ... Together with Botanical Notices and Information and ... Memoirs of Eminent Botanists, Volume 1H. Baillière, 1842 - Botany |
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Page 233 - ... that suddenly opening to view from dark shades, we are alarmed with the apprehension of the hill being set on fire. This is certainly the most gay and brilliant flowering shrub yet known...
Page 123 - AC) and the branches, which resemble those of the palm tree in their growth, fall off every year, leaving an indentation on the trunk. The leaves of these branches, which are twelve in number, are much like the heath fern, from whence this tree obtained the name of the fern-tree. The middle of the tree, from the root to the apex, consists of a white substance resembling a yam, and when boiled it tastes like a bad turnip; this the hogs feed on very eagerly; the outside of the trunk is hard wood, and...
Page 219 - vile foreign weed," as Dr. Darlington, agriculturally speaking, terms this showy plant, is occasionally seen along the road-sides of the northern States; but here, for the distance of more than a hundred miles, it has taken complete possession, even of many cultivated fields, especially where the limestone approaches the surface, presenting a broad expanse of brilliant blue.
Page 47 - ... structure. Others, growing in the depths of the great Pacific Ocean, have stems which exceed in length (though not in diameter) the trunks of the tallest forest trees; and others have leaves that rival in expansion those of the Palm. Some are simple globules or spheres, consisting of a single cellule or little bag of tissue filled with a colouring matter; some are mere strings of such cellules cohering by the ends; others, a little more perfect, exhibit the appearance of branched threads; in...
Page 634 - Part I. An Introduction to Structural and Physiological Botany. Part II. The Principles of Systematic Botany ; with an Account of the Chief Natural Families of the Vegetable Kingdom, and Notices of the Principal Useful Plants.
Page 576 - ... that which it belonged to. It was a resurrection in miniature ; but the immutable laws prescribed to living beings were my directors.* At the voice of comparative anatomy, each bone, each fragment, regained its place. I have no expressions...
Page 219 - Fields and waste ground. Jefferson : abundant especially near Charlestown, where there are many fields absolutely blue with the plant. Dr. Gray says of his trip through this country: "From the moment we entered the valley, we observed such immense quantities of Echium vulgare, that we were no longer surprised at the doubt expressed by Pursh whether it were really an introduced plant;" near Shenandoah Junction ; Shepherdstown and Harper's Ferry.
Page 218 - ... River, as the upper part of the Great Kenawha is termed, from which point it loses its character in some degree, and is exclusively traversed by the western waters. The same valley extends to the north and east through Maryland and Pennsylvania, and even into the State of New York, preserving throughout the same geological character and fertile soil. Our first day's ride was to Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, a distance of sixty-nine miles from Winchester. From the moment we entered the valley,...
Page 233 - The epithet fiery, I annex to this most celebrated species of Azalea, as being expressive of the appearance of its flowers, which are in general of the colour of the finest red lead, orange and bright gold, as well as yellow and cream colour...
Page 46 - Thus extensively scattered through all climates, and existing under so many varieties of situation, the species are, as one would naturally suppose, exceedingly numerous, and present a greater variety in form and size than is observable in any other tribe of plants whose structure is so similar. Some are so exceedingly minute as to be wholly invisible, except in masses, to the naked eye; and require the highest powers of our microscopes to ascertain their form and structure.