Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as Recommend Themselves by Their Novelty, Rarity, Or History, Or by the Uses to which They are Applied in the Arts, in Medicine, and in Domestic Oeconomy; Together with Occasional Botanical Notices and Information, المجلد 3Sir William Jackson Hooker J. Murray., 1833 |
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الصفحة 50 - There it runs up its nest to the height of ten or twelve inches, of a cylindrical form, with a small ditch round the base. A curious circumstance with regard to this bird is, that when irritated the feathers of its cheeks are separated, so as to display a beautiful stripe of naked orange skin, running from the corners of the mouth towards the back of the head.
الصفحة 291 - Illustrations of Indian Botany, principally of the Southern parts of the Peninsula, 1831.
الصفحة 384 - Englishmen, who were engaged in conducting the operations of the Real del Monte Company in Mexico, carried out with them some Greyhounds of the best breed, to hunt the hares which abound in that country. The great platform which is the scene of...
الصفحة 51 - We had the curiosity to take one of them by the point of the •wings and fling it over the rock; yet, though it had several hundred feet of a clear fall, it never recovered itself, but dropped down like a stone.
الصفحة 6 - ... their breadth, and therefore seem round. The frond has a complete and entire margin, but is frequently torn ; its substance is coriaceous. I have never detected any fructification. The root resembles that of the larger l,aminarias, but is more woody. This Fucus is very plentiful in the Bay of Illulak, and round the whole island of Amaknak.
الصفحة 19 - It occurs frequently further down, but the more predominant spruce trees conceal it from view ; but here it constitutes almost the entire timber. From its agreeable perfume, it is known to the Russians as dnshnik, or scented wood. This is the wood formerly exported to China, and returned to us as "camphor wood," &c., famous for excluding moths.
الصفحة 277 - ... the late enlightened and enterprising monarch of the country. His successor has, however, encouraged or permitted its revival, to a most lamentable extent — all her principal people, officers, diviners, cursers, and others, to the amount of some hundreds, have been compelled to drink the Tanghena within the last few months, and scores have perished, cut off in the midst of health and vigour, their property confiscated, and their families reduced to ruin and misery ! Of one instance I have just...
الصفحة 385 - ... one would expect to find it under those conditions in the latitude of Persia — viz., very hot and dry in the summer, very cold and snowy in the winter, and temperate in spring and autumn. In the more elevated districts, and especially in the mountain passes, several of which our telegraph crosses at an elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the sea, the cold in winter is excessive, and the snow often such as to render all locomotion utterly impossible. The hardships, and even the dangers,...
الصفحة 250 - ... done twice a year ; and from this district the finest and whitest rice in Madagascar is obtained. The ground is frequently changed, and another spot cleared : but after two or three years the natives return to the original place, and cultivate it anew; and wherever they sow their seed, there they are sure of an abundant return, independent of the state of the weather. Sometimes they select a half dried marsh, and sending in their oxen they drive them backwards and forwards till the ground is...
الصفحة 82 - ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY, PRINCIPALLY OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE PENINSULA.