A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Islands of Porto Santo and the Desertas, Part 1

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J. Van Voorst, 1868
 

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Page 576 - Averni, tollunt se celeres, liquidumque per ae'ra lapsae sedibus optatis geminae super arbore sidunt, discolor unde auri per ramos aura refulsit. quale solet silvis brumali frigore viscum 205 fronde virere nova, quod non sua seminat arbos, et croceo fetu teretis circumdare truncos — talis erat species auri frondentis opaca ilice, sic leni crepitabat brattea vento.
Page 82 - Yet, parch'd with scalding thirst and hunger fierce, Though to delude them sent, could not abstain ; But on they roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera.

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