The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... species ; most of the species of aconite have been deemed poisonous . The ancients were so surprised at their pernicions effects , that they were afraid to touch the plants ; and hence sprung many superstitious pre- cautions about the ...
... species ; most of the species of aconite have been deemed poisonous . The ancients were so surprised at their pernicions effects , that they were afraid to touch the plants ; and hence sprung many superstitious pre- cautions about the ...
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... species , and differing only in age and cast of colours . The specimen in the British Museum is about eighteen inches long . See plate Serpentes , fig . 1 . ACRONICHAL , or ACHRONYCAL , in astronomy , an appellation given to the ris ...
... species , and differing only in age and cast of colours . The specimen in the British Museum is about eighteen inches long . See plate Serpentes , fig . 1 . ACRONICHAL , or ACHRONYCAL , in astronomy , an appellation given to the ris ...
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... species of the ruby family , found only in China . Colour dark hair brown . Massive , crystallized in six - sided prisms , and six - sided pyramids , having their apex trun- cated . Specific gravity 3.98 . See RUBY . ADAMBEA , in botany ...
... species of the ruby family , found only in China . Colour dark hair brown . Massive , crystallized in six - sided prisms , and six - sided pyramids , having their apex trun- cated . Specific gravity 3.98 . See RUBY . ADAMBEA , in botany ...
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... species , viz . the A. æstivalis , or tall , which is a native of the southern countries of Europe , where it grows among corn : the A. autumnalis , or common , which are found in Kent , near the Medway , in fields sown with wheat ; the ...
... species , viz . the A. æstivalis , or tall , which is a native of the southern countries of Europe , where it grows among corn : the A. autumnalis , or common , which are found in Kent , near the Medway , in fields sown with wheat ; the ...
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... species usually grows upon the inside of the glumes of the calyx , and of the ex- terior valvule of the corolla , under their epidermes , which , when the plant is ripe , bursts , and emits a powder of a bright orange colour . Other species ...
... species usually grows upon the inside of the glumes of the calyx , and of the ex- terior valvule of the corolla , under their epidermes , which , when the plant is ripe , bursts , and emits a powder of a bright orange colour . Other species ...
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