The Journal of Botany, Volume 4Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1842 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 œconomy; together with occasional botanical notices and information. |
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Page 277 - BOTANY. 28. lioiany of New South Wales. — In the " Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales," lately published by Mr Baron Field, there is a valuable memoir by Mr Allan Cunningham, Botanical Collector for his Majesty's gardens at Kew, upon the " botany of the mountainous country, between the colony round Port Jackson and the settlement of Bathurst ; being a portion of the result of observations made in Oct.
Page 314 - The forest ridges, which were heavily timbered with stringy-bark of great bulk, were found clothed to their summits with grasses of the most luxuriant growth, and being well watered by numerous trickling rills, originating between the shoulders of the hills, constitute a very spacious range of the richest cattle pasture.
Page 43 - Frequently all the margin or lobules of the frond are changed in texture, forming an accessory indusium, with which the interior lateral attached special indusium more or less connives; united, they form a vertical or reflexed, continuous or urceolate calyciform, or bilabiate marginal cyst, which contains the sporangia, and opens exteriorly. Sometimes the whole of the sori of each segment are inclosed within a universal indusium, which is formed by the revolute margin of fertile contracted...
Page 276 - A few General Remarks on the Vegetation of certain Coasts of Terra Australis, and more especially of its north-western shores«, die als Appendix dem Buche von Capt. KING »Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia
Page 312 - ... the monotonous aspect of which was here and there relieved by a brown patch of plain : of these some were so remote as to appear a mere speck on the ocean of land before us, on which the eye sought anxiously for a rising smoke, as indicative of the presence of the wandering aborigines ; but in vain : for, excepting in the immediate neighbourhood of a river of the larger magnitude, these vast solitudes may be fairly said to be almost entirely without inhabitants. We had now all the high grounds...
Page 311 - I have the honour to be, Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant, SAMUEL MARSDEN.
Page 43 - Sometimes the whole of the sori of each segment are included within a universal indusium which is formed by the revolute margin of fertile contracted fronds.
Page 39 - ... several affinities by a sort of hiatus, yet even now, many as are the species which remain to be discovered, it is often very difficult to say between which two species the hiatus is most marked, and the more plants we discover the more are these hiatuses filled up. A genus, therefore, has seldom any real existence in nature as a positively determined group, and must rather be considered as a mere contrivance for assisting us in comparing and studying the enormous multitude of species, which,...
Page 286 - Gesneraceee, is thus recorded in a paper of Cunningham's in Hooker's Journal of Botany, Vol. IV., p. 286 : " A climbing, rooting-stemmed plant adhering to the trunks of the tree-ferns is very general in these shaded woods, where it covers also fallen timber. I was fortunate in detecting it in fruit and flower, it belongs to that division of Bignoniaceee of Jussien, producing baccate fruit.
Page 261 - Capparis abound in the brushes, of the same kind as those seen at Vansittart Bay last year; the arborescent gouty species of this genus, (Capparis gibbosa, A. Cunn.,) which was first observed on the shores of Cambridge Gulf, is frequent here, growing to an enormous size, and laden with large fruit.