Flora Scotica; Or, a Description of Scottish Plants: Arranged Both According to the Artificial and Natural Methods. In Two PartsR. and A. Taylor, 1821 - 589 หน้า |
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5-cleft acuminate acute Anthers apothecia Arnott axillary Banks base Ben Lawers beneath bifid bracteas branched Brit brown calyx Caps capsule colour common crenate culm cylindrical downy Edinb elongated entire feet high filaments fleshy florets flowers foliaceous footstalks frequent frond fruit germens glabrous Glasg glaucous glumes Greville hairy Highland Hook Hopk imbricated inches high involucre July June lanceolate leaflets leaves lanceolate leaves ovate legumes Lich Lichen Lightf lobes Loch many-seeded margin Maugh membranaceous mountains Musc naked nearly nerve oblong oblongo-ovate obovate obtuse ovato-lanceolate panicle pastures pedicels peduncles Pentland hills Perianth Pericarps Peristome petals petiolate pileus pinnate pinnatifid plane plant procumbent pubescent racemes radical leaves rare receptacle rocks rostrate roundish scales scape Seeds segments serrated sessile sheaths smooth solitary species spikelets spikes Stam stem erect Stigma stipes striated style subulate terminal thallus toothed umbels upper valves whorled Woods yellow
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หน้า 57 - Reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves, Order'd by an Intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.
หน้า 95 - This species is by far the most abundantly employed in the manufac-1 turing of kelp, if it be not the best. But this, important as it is in a commercial point of view, is not the only end it serves. In the isles of Jura and Skye it is frequently a winter .food for cattle, which regularly come down to the shores at the recess of the tide to seek for it ; and sometimes even the deer have been _known to descend from the mountains to the sea-side to feed upon this plant.
หน้า 58 - Immense quantities are gathered in the latter country, not only for sale, but for their own use as an article of common food. The bitter and purgative quality being extracted by steeping in water, the Lichen is dried, reduced to powder, and made into a cake, or boiled and eaten with milk, and eaten with thankfulness, too, by the poor natives, who confess " that a bountiful Providence sends them bread out of the very stones.
หน้า 8 - Hayne, are filled with water, till it is necessary the plant should rise to the surface and expand its blossoms above that fluid. The vesicles are then found to contain only air, by aid of which the plant floats: this air again in Autumn gives place to water, and the plant descends to ripen itsseeds at the bottom.
หน้า 138 - Fruitstalks lateral; Peristome double; the outer of 16 teeth, the inner of 16 cilia, connected only at the very base by a short membrane; Calyptra dimidiate.
หน้า 163 - Fox-tail-grass); culm erect, smooth, panicle spiked cylindrical obtuse, calyx-glumes lanceolate acute hairy connate at the base, awn twice the length of corolla.
หน้า 186 - When the fruit is ripe the seeds rattle in the husky capsule, and indicate to the Swedish peasantry the season for gathering in their hay. In England, as Mr. Curtis observes, generally speaking, the hay-making begins when this plant is in full flower.
หน้า 95 - Swintang : and in Scania, he says, the poor people cover their cottages with it, and use it for fuel. — In Jura and some other...
หน้า 95 - ... best. But this, important as it is in a commercial point of view, is not the only end it serves. In the isles of Jura and Skye it is frequently a winter food for cattle, which regularly come down to the shores at the •receding of the tide to seek for it ; and sometimes even the deer have been known to descend from the mountains to the sea-side to feed upon this plant. Linnaeus informs us that the inhabitants of Gothland, in Sweden, boil this Fucus...
หน้า 49 - Macintosh of Glasgow. This gentleman imports it largely from Norway, where it grows more abundantly than with us ; yet in the Highland districts, many an industrious peasant gets a living by scraping off this Lichen with an iron hook and sending it to the Glasgow market.