Recreations in BotanyHarper, 1893 - 216 страница |
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... springs from seed , would cease to exist . Geologists know that dicotyledonous plants did not occur in large numbers till nectar - seeking insects were evolved . For the curious fact is that the greater num- ber of flowers are ...
... springs from seed , would cease to exist . Geologists know that dicotyledonous plants did not occur in large numbers till nectar - seeking insects were evolved . For the curious fact is that the greater num- ber of flowers are ...
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... spring , which we all know and love , and others without petals , in summer , which are fertilized in the unopened bud . You must pull aside the leaves to find the summer blossoms and their pods in autumn . These concealed blossoms are ...
... spring , which we all know and love , and others without petals , in summer , which are fertilized in the unopened bud . You must pull aside the leaves to find the summer blossoms and their pods in autumn . These concealed blossoms are ...
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... spring . There is a delicate little plant with an ugly name , very common in woods , climbing over everything , pro- ducing small pea - like blossoms . It is the hog - peanut ( Amphicarpaa monoica ) . Near the base , almost under the ...
... spring . There is a delicate little plant with an ugly name , very common in woods , climbing over everything , pro- ducing small pea - like blossoms . It is the hog - peanut ( Amphicarpaa monoica ) . Near the base , almost under the ...
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... spring up ; the pollen flies through chinks in the tops of the anthers , and the in- sect is covered with the yellow grains . Some flowers , like wistaria , have a fine fringe of hairs just below the stigma , which can have no other ...
... spring up ; the pollen flies through chinks in the tops of the anthers , and the in- sect is covered with the yellow grains . Some flowers , like wistaria , have a fine fringe of hairs just below the stigma , which can have no other ...
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... spring up and bloom in a single night . Clumps of the poison - sumac grew near , and the search had to be pur- sued with care . This orchid , " rather scarce and local , " may sometimes be found in cranberry patches ; but many botanists ...
... spring up and bloom in a single night . Clumps of the poison - sumac grew near , and the search had to be pur- sued with care . This orchid , " rather scarce and local , " may sometimes be found in cranberry patches ; but many botanists ...
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Страница 160 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Страница 210 - Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Страница 132 - ... the tender framing of their endless imagery. Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen spots rest, starlike, on the stone : and the gathering orange stain, upon the edge of yonder western peak, reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.
Страница 132 - Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slowpencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery.
Страница 210 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Страница 132 - ... stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its...
Страница 29 - I have castrated and fertilised above ninety flowers, trying all the eighteen distinct crosses which are possible within the limits of this one species ! I cannot explain, but I feel sure you would think it a grand case. I have been writing to Botanists to see if I can possibly get L.
Страница 42 - neath the tree The goddess" self I almost hope to see. The tints of purple and the texture fine, The curves of beauty seen in every line. With fringes exquisite of golden hue Perfect the wonders of the fairy shoe. The goddess surely must have been in haste, Like Daphne, fleeing when Apollo chased, And leaving here a slipper by the way, Intends to find it on another day.
Страница xii - Perfect.— As applied to flowers, having both stamens and pistils. Perianth. — The floral envelopes taken collectively. Petal— A division of the corolla. Petiole.— The foot-stalk of a leaf. Pinnate (leaves) are compound leaves, in which the leaflets are arranged on a common stalk, which answers to the midrib of a simple leaf. Locust and ash are examples. Placenta.— The seed-bearing part of the ovary. Plumule.— The bud just above the cotyledons of a germinating plant.
Страница 210 - The object of the foregoing chapters has been, not a scientific treatise on Botany, but to show how comparatively simple and easy it is, and what a pleasure it is, to know something — a great deal — about plants.