Hortus Anglicus: Or, The Modern English Garden: Containing a Familiar Description of All the Plants which are Cultivated in the Climate of Great Britain, Arranged According to the System of Linnæus, 2. kötet

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R. C. & J. Rivington, 1822 - 589 oldal
 

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462. oldal - Stales of the North American Union, where it is most abundant upon the shores of creeks and bays. It is also abundant in Texas. The Live Oak yields the best oak of America, the timber being heavy, compact, and fine-grained ; and is extensively...
468. oldal - Q. Cerris, Turkey Oak. Leaves deciduous, on very short stalks, oblong, deeply and unequally pinnatifid ; hairy beneath ; lobes lanceolate, acute, somewhat angular. Stipules longer than the footstalks. Cup hemispherical, with long loose hairy scales. An exceedingly common plant all over the south-east of Europe, where it seems to form some of the finest specimens of oak. It has an open, straight, graceful mode of growth, very different from the gnarled and tortuous appearance of native British oaks...
52. oldal - Calyx unequal, much wider than the tube of the corolla ; upper lip of the corolla flat, lower three lobed, crenate ; anthers forming a cross.
367. oldal - I have known the dry herbe, which came from beyond the sea, sold in Bucklersbury for halfe a crowne an ounce. But since it was found in Harapstead wood, even as it were at our townes...
91. oldal - Mountain thyme. Thymus serpyllum. "It is a common notion, that the flesh of sheep which feed upon aromatic plants, particularly wild thyme, is superior in flavour to other mutton. The truth is, that sheep do not crop these aromatic plants, unless now and then by accident, or when they are first turned on hungry to downs, heaths, or commons; but the soil and situations favourable to aromatic plants...
364. oldal - Stem smoothish, furrowed, much branched ; leaves almost linear, entire, roughish, nearly erect, with three or five rough ribs; corymbs terminal, leveltopped ; flowers in heads ; rays not longer than the disk...

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