The London Journal of Botany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of ... Plants ... Together with Botanical Notices and Information and ... Memoirs of Eminent Botanists, Band 3

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H. Baillière, 1844
 

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Seite 50 - Tis raging noon ; and, vertical, the sun Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. O'er heaven and earth, far as the ranging eye Can sweep, a dazzling deluge reigns ; and all From pole to pole, is undistinguished blaze.
Seite 235 - Pycnanthemum, and the upper lip of the corolla is entire ; so that it cannot belong to Monardella, although placed as the leading species of that genus. As to the species from which Mr. Bentham derived...
Seite 241 - We were likewise unsuccessful in our search for a remarkable undescribed plant, with the habit of Pyrola and the foliage of Galax, which was obtained by Michaux in the high mountains of Carolina. The only specimen extant is among the
Seite 232 - ... the prospect; where a person may gallop his horse for a mile or two, with Carolina at his feet on one side, and Tennessee on the other, and a green ocean of mountains, raised into tremendous billows, immediately around him.
Seite 39 - ... the flowers blossomed, and the river rolled, but not for man! Solitude all!! Even the very little birds, few though they were in number, seemed to think with me; for they flew from spray to spray around and about my path with their melancholy 'twit twit' as if wishing to have all they possibly could of the company of a passer-by.
Seite 282 - ... inches across. The whole plant gives out at night a bright phosphorescent light, of a pale greenish hue, similar to that emitted by the larger fire-flies, or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosoma; from this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants "Flor do Coco;" the light given out by a few of these fungi, in a dark room, was sufficient to read by.
Seite 231 - This is the easiest of access, the most beautiful, and will best repay the labor of ascending it of all our high mountains. With the exception of a body of rocks looking like the ruins of an old castle, near its southwestern extremity, the top of the Roan may be described as a vast meadow, without a tree to obstruct the prospect ; where a person may gallop his horse for a mile or two, with Carolina at his feet on one side, and Tennessee on the other, and a green ocean of mountains raised into tremendous...
Seite 132 - Sulphur, ' ' under the command of Capt. Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1836-42, London.
Seite 253 - ... Napier, then governor of the Cape, visited the eastern frontier ; though even at that time, Macomo was said to have been " excessively addicted to drink." " The celebrated chiefs, Macomo and Tyali, who took the most prominent part in the late Kaffir war, dined with us at Mr. Stretch's, and behaved like gentlemen, seeming quite accustomed to European habits, and perfectly at their ease. We had much conversation with them by means of an interpreter. They showed a quickness of repartee, and a tact...

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