The Journal of Botany, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1834 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 137 - and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.
Page 365 - Foliis alternis distichis obliquis integris, floribus axillaribus subsolitariis, petalis tridentatis. Kayo Kanchil. Malay. This species is not unfrequent in Sumatra, at Singapore and other parts of the Malay Archipelago. A shrub, with ferruginous pilose branches. Leaves alternate, distichous, arranged in two series, one of large leaves and another of very small ones which resemble
Page 113 - in the Levant it is the custom to strew flowers on the bodies of the dead, and in the hands of young persons to place a nosegay.
Page 100 - Flosque novus scripto gemitus imitabere nostros Tempus et illud erit, quo se fortissimus heros, Addat in hunc florem, folioque legatur eodem.
Page 364 - covered with brown spots, five-celled, polysporous. OBS. I found this and the following species of Vaccinium on the very summit of Gunong Bunko, a remarkably insulated mountain in the interior of Bencoolen, commonly called by Europeans the Sugar-loaf, in reference to its shape. Its elevation is
Page 95 - traced the names of Dioscorides and Theophrastus, corrupted indeed, in some degree, by pronunciation, and by the long 'series annorum' which had elapsed since the time of these philosophers; but many of them were unmutilated, and their virtues faithfully handed down in the oral traditions of the country.
Page 95 - after dinner I walked out with a shepherd's boy to herborize; my pastoral botanist surprised me not a little with his nomenclature; I traced the names of Dioscorides and Theophrastus, corrupted indeed, in some degree, by pronunciation, and by the long 'series
Page 115 - I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my Pomegranate.
Page 113 - architecture ; even the shape of the windows, doors, and towers, may be traced to it, as well as the accompanying decorations of flowers and leaves.
Page 358 - Nearly stemless. Leaves petiolate, subrotund, from three to four inches in diameter, slightly oblique, cordate at the base where the lobes overlap each other, remotely crenate, rounded at the point, smooth except on the nerves of the under surface, beautifully and finely punctate above. Stipules scariose, acute. Peduncles erect, subdichotomous, nearly as long as the