The London Journal of Botany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of ... Plants ... Together with Botanical Notices and Information and ... Memoirs of Eminent Botanists, المجلد 7H. Baillière, 1848 |
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الصفحة 384 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds— His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And, when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay, where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew!
الصفحة 160 - This they proceeded to do, though warned of the consequences likely to accrue from handling it. The doctor stood aloof from a danger which he knew to be inevitable in his own person on near approach or contact. The result was, some of the party suffered severely; the inflammatory action reaching up the arms to the trunk in one, in another only as high as the elbows, whilst in a third the effects were confined to the hands, which, as is usual in these cases, became swollen, inflamed and finally ulcerated.
الصفحة 390 - The design of this work is to illustrate the Botany of the United States by figures, with full analyses of one or more species of each genus, accompanied by descriptive generic characters and critical observations. The figures are in all cases drawn directly from nature.
الصفحة 502 - ... being always distinct, even from the commencement. As the connecting portion is so small, and necessarily produces the new segments, which cannot arise from a broader base than its opening, these are at first very minute, though they rapidly increase in size. The segments are separated by the elongation of the connecting tube, which is converted into two roundish hyaline lobules. These lobules increase in size, acquire colour, and gradually put on the appearance of the old portions. Of course,...
الصفحة 502 - ... but complete separation frequently occurs before the whole process is completed. This singular process is repeated again and again, so that the older segments are united successively, as it were, with many generations.
الصفحة 54 - ... proper time, but which we doubt not is commending itself to the attention of those for whom it was principally designed.) There is besides an enumeration of the contents of a new work by G. Rainey, (which we have not seen,) entitled, an Experimental Inquiry into the cause of the ascent and descent of the Sap, with some observations on the nutrition of plants, and the cause of Exosmose and Endosmose ; and also of Mr. M'lvor's Hepaticce...
الصفحة 49 - Alga: of the Southern Ocean, being Figures and Descriptions of Marine Plants collected on the Shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extratropical Australian Colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic Regions. By Dr. HARVEY, FRS Imperial 8vo, 50 Coloured Plates, £2. 2*. A selection of Fifty Species of remarkable forms of Seaweed, not included in the ' Phycologia Australica,
الصفحة 534 - ... with that appellation. There is, however, a plant that serves the inhabitants instead of hemp and flax, which excels all that are put to the same purposes in other countries. Of this plant there are two sorts ; the leaves of both resemble those of flags, but the flowers are smaller, and their clusters more numerous ; in one kind they are yellow, and in the other a deep red.
الصفحة 52 - Algce, we know not if we can pay it a higher compliment than by saying it is worthy of the author. It should be observed that the work is not a selection of certain species, but an arranged system of all that is known of Australian Alga:, accompanied by figures of the new and rare ones, especially of those most remarkable for beauty of form and colour.
الصفحة 49 - MD *Nereis Australis, or Algae of the Southern Ocean : being figures and descriptions of marine plants collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra tropical Australian Colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic regions, deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University. Part 1. 2. London, 1847 — 49, imp. 8vo. pp. viii., 124, col.