 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...the air, its surface becomes brown." The consistence very much resembles milk ; but it is more thick and viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark...a considerable quantity, so that in a short time a cup-full may be collected from a large tree. The inner bark (or liber) is of a close fibrous texture,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...the air, its surface becomes brown. The consistence very much resembles milk ; but it is more thick and viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark...yields a considerable quantity, so that in a short lime a cup-full may be collected from a large tree. The :nner bark (or liber) is of a close fibrous... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...ground it spreads obliquely, dividing into numerous broad appendages or wings, much like the canariam commune and several others of our large forest trees....a considerable quantity, so that in a short time a cupful may be collected from a large tree. The inner bark (or liber) is of a close fibrous texture,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...to the air, its surface becomes brown. The consistence very much resembles milk ; it is more thick and viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark...a considerable quantity, so that in a short time a cup-full may be collected from a large tree. The inner bark (or liber) is of a close, fibrous texture,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles - 1830 - 600 pages
...the air, " its surface becomes brown. The consistence very much resembles milk : " it is more thick and viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark...considerable quantity, so that " in a short time a cup-full may be collected from a large tree. The inner " bark (or liber) is of a close fibrous texture,... | |
 | Charles Coleman - 1832 - 514 pages
...juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, juice or sap appears oozing out of a yellowish colour...a cup full may be collected from a large tree. The poorer classes employ the inner bark of younger trees, which is more easily prepared, for the purpose... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 436 pages
...air, its surface becomes brown. The consistence very much resembles milk, only it is thicker and more viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark, or cortex, which yields a considerable quantity from a puncture, so that in a short time a cupful may be collected from... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pages
...exposed to the air, its surface becomes brown. The consistence very much resembles milk; it is more thick and viscid. This sap is contained in the true bark...liber) is of a close, fibrous texture, like that of the morus papyrifera, and, when separated from the other bark, and cleansed from the adhering particles,... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...Near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick ; and, upon being wounded, it yields plentifully the milky juice from which the...a considerable quantity, so that in a short time a cupful may be collected from a largo tree. The inner bark, or liber, is of a close fibrous texture,... | |
 | John Platts - 1882 - 558 pages
...being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour, somewhat f-othy ; from old trees, paler ; and nearly white from young...a considerable quantity, so that in a short time a cupful may be collected from a large tree. The inner bark, or liber, is of a close fibrous texture,... | |
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... which the celebrated poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or sap appears oozing out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat frothy) ; from old trees, paler ; and nearly white from young ones : when exposed to the air,... 
