Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Band 28

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Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1904
 

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Seite 946 - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900,
Seite 703 - Rau-ti" or Palm, this being the usual name for a Draccena. ". . . . a Norfolk Island Bread-fruit, Cordyline anxtrali*, 2 feet 9 inches. The last sometimes attains 20 feet in height (I hare seen it higher. — JHM ); it branches from within a few feet of the ground, and forms several heads, with flag-like leaves, and long, branched spikes of greenish, star flowers, succeeded by whitish, or bluish-purple berries, that are eaten by parrots. It often forms a striking object, where a woody valley runs...
Seite 942 - Government Botanist of New South Wales and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Seite 712 - ... timber, which seldom stand three years. It is generally used for building purposes, flooring, partitions, &c. ; and when kept dry and not exposed...
Seite 670 - Voyages de Corneille le Bruyn par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales...
Seite 699 - Cherry-tree, the bark of which is used in tanning, is one of the most useful woods and is decreasing rapidly by being stripped of its bark and so left to perish. " Downing states, " The Cherry-tree, a species of Exocarpus; the bark of the latter rich in tannin, has been used for leathermaking.
Seite 706 - Its stem is marked by rings, where the old leaves have fallen off, and is an inch and a half in diameter; it lies on the ground, or climbs like ivy, or winds round the trunks of trees. The branches are crowned with crests of broad, sedge-like leaves. From the centre of these arise clusters of three or four oblong, red, pulpy fruit, four inches in length, and as much in circumference. When the plant is in flower the centre leaves are scarlet, giving a splendid appearance to the plant, which sometimes...
Seite 755 - Wales. The cabbage is, properly speaking, the bud of the tree; each tree producing but one cabbage, which is at the crown, where the leaves spring out, and is inclosed in the stem. The cutting off the cabbage effectually destroys the tree ; so that no more than, one can be had from the same stem. The cocoa-nut tree, and some others of the palm kind, produce cabbage as well as these. This vegetable is not only wholesome, but exceedingly palatable, and proved the most agreeable repast we had for some...
Seite 670 - ... command of Major Mitchell, Surveyor-General, wandered in his enthusiasm for botanical investigation from his companions, and losing himself in this locality of the Bogan River, fell into the hands of the Aboriginals, by whom he was unfortunately killed about 25th April, 1835, in the 42nd year of his age.

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