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... short essays , called ' The Recreations of a Country Parson , ' is one ' Concerning Summer Days , ' which is so full of pleasant thoughts and the love of green trees and fields , hedges and hedge - rows , that I cannot but wish he would ...
... short essays , called ' The Recreations of a Country Parson , ' is one ' Concerning Summer Days , ' which is so full of pleasant thoughts and the love of green trees and fields , hedges and hedge - rows , that I cannot but wish he would ...
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... short bristles ; the pods or horns are from six to ten or twelve inches long , crowned by the spreading lobes of the stigma . When we see this pretty plant , it is interesting to remember the history of Glaucus , after whom it is named ...
... short bristles ; the pods or horns are from six to ten or twelve inches long , crowned by the spreading lobes of the stigma . When we see this pretty plant , it is interesting to remember the history of Glaucus , after whom it is named ...
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... short , a silicle . Isatis Tinctoria preserves the general characteristics of the family . The stem is from eighteen inches to two or three feet high , branched in the upper part . 17 Its long leaves are smooth and coarsely toothed and ...
... short , a silicle . Isatis Tinctoria preserves the general characteristics of the family . The stem is from eighteen inches to two or three feet high , branched in the upper part . 17 Its long leaves are smooth and coarsely toothed and ...
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... short clusters from the bosom of the leaves ; the calyx is five - toothed , and surrounded with bracts . The whole plant , and particularly the root , abounds in mucilage ; the demulcent lozenges sold in the shops under the name of Pâte ...
... short clusters from the bosom of the leaves ; the calyx is five - toothed , and surrounded with bracts . The whole plant , and particularly the root , abounds in mucilage ; the demulcent lozenges sold in the shops under the name of Pâte ...
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... short to shear , — Crumbled to sparkling dust beneath My light step on that summer heath . " " " Old Gerarde , writing in the time of Queen Elizabeth , says , that he was requested by " divers earnest letters ' to send this shrub to ...
... short to shear , — Crumbled to sparkling dust beneath My light step on that summer heath . " " " Old Gerarde , writing in the time of Queen Elizabeth , says , that he was requested by " divers earnest letters ' to send this shrub to ...
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Wild Flowers Worth Notice: For Their Beauty, Associations, Or Uses Phebe Lankester No preview available - 2017 |
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acrid appearance ARUM MACULATUM beautiful berries birds blossoms blue flowers botanists Botany bracts branches bright Britain British species BRYONY called Calluna calyx charming cloth Colchicum Coloured Plates contain corolla Cowslip Crown 8vo cultivated curious Daisy delicate Demy 8vo districts downy early eaten Edition England erect favourite Fcap FLOWERING RUSH gardens genus GRAPE HYACINTH green growing Harebell heath heather hedges Henbane herbs Holly Hyacinth Illustrated inches long known lanceolate leaves LILY little plant lobes long stalks lovely MALLOW MARSH meadows medicine Mistletoe NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS native NATURAL HISTORY natural order Nettles numerous oblong Ophrys Orchis ORCHIS MILITARIS ovate pale PAPAVER ARGEMONE petals plant belongs poisonous pretty plant Primrose properties purple raceme resemblance root rose SAGITTARIA SAGITTIFOLIA SAXIFRAGE Scotland seeds seen sepals smooth spring SPRING SQUILL stamens stem teazle tuft umbels vegetable VERNA Vols Vulgaris Water-cresses whole plant wild flowers woods yellow colour
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