The Ferns of Great Britain, and Their Allies, the Club-mosses, Pepperworts, and HorsetailsSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 - 164 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 99 - And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing ramble; there the turf Smells fresh, and, rich in odoriferous herbs And fungous fruits of earth, regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets.
الصفحة 71 - WHERE the copse-wood is the greenest, Where the fountain glistens sheenest, Where the morning dew lies longest, There the lady fern grows strongest.
الصفحة 104 - You may sleep an hour at noon ; When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able ; When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.
الصفحة 72 - Then search for her in the summer woods, Where rills keep moist the ground, Where foxgloves from their spotted hoods Shake pilfering insects round ; Where up and clambering all about, The traveller's joy flings forth Its snowy awns, that in and out Like feathers strew the earth. Fair are the tufts of...
الصفحة 34 - In endless sweets, above all praise of song. For not to use alone did Providence Abound, but large example gave to man Of grace, and ornament, and splendour rich, Suited abundantly to every taste...
الصفحة 100 - But this is to be reckoned among the old wives fables, and that also which Dioscorides telleth of, touching the gathering of Spleenewoort in the night, and other most vaine things, which are found here and there scattered in old books...
الصفحة 71 - IF you would see the lady fern In all her graceful power, Go look for her where woodlarks learn Love-songs in a summer bower ; Where not far off, nor yet close by, A merry stream trips on, Just near enow for an old man's eye To watch the waters run, And leap o'er many a cluster white Of crowfoots o'er them spread ; While hart's tongues quiet with a green more bright Where the brackens make their bed.
الصفحة 127 - It is said, yea, and believed by many, that Moonwort will open the locks wherewith dwelling-houses are made fast, if it be put into the keyhole ; as, also, that it will loosen the locks, fetters, and shoes from those horses...
الصفحة 161 - A large stagnant piece of water in an inland county, with which I was intimately acquainted, and which I very frequently visited for many years of my life, was one summer suddenly infested with an astonishing number of the shorttailed water rat, none of which had previously existed there.
الصفحة 143 - Cactus" (Cereus senilis), which I took out from England, and presented to a Chinese nurseryman at Canton. On asking them why they prized the Lycopodium so much, they replied, in Canton English, "Oh, he too muchia handsome; he grow only a leete and a leete every year; and suppose he be one hundred year oula, he only so high" holding up their hands an inch or two higher than the plant.