A Generic and Specific Description of British Plants

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Printed, and sold by T. Caslon and Hawes, Clark and Collins, 1775 - 258 Seiten
 

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Seite 217 - The fame gentleman informed me, that he had never been able to raife uny plant from the feed of the wild Orchis; but he afcribes his want of fuccefs to the wetnefs of the fituation, in which he refides. I have now before me a...
Seite 217 - I have now before me a seed pod of the orchis, the contents of which, to the naked eye, seem to be seed corrupted and turned to dust; but, when viewed through a microscope, appear evidently to be organized, and would, I doubt not, with proper culture, germinate, and produce a thriving crop of plants.
Seite xiv - Dodecandria, {12) Icosandria, (13) Polyandria, (14) Didynamia, 15) Tetradynamia, (16) Monadelphia, (17) Diadelphia, (18) Polyadelphia, (19) Syngenesia, (20) Gynandria, (21) Moncecia, (22) Dicecia, (23) Polygamia, (24) Cryptogamia.
Seite i - A generic and specific description of British plants, translated from the Genera et species plantarum of Linnaeus. To which is prefixed an etymological dictionary explaining the classes, orders, and principal genera; and a glossary is added to explain the technical terms. With notes and observations. 8".
Seite 219 - ... per pound. The culture of the Orchis, therefore, is an object highly deserving of encouragement from all the lovers of agriculture ; and as the root, if introduced into common use, would furnish a cheap, wholesome, and most nutritious article of diet, the growth of it would be sufficiently profitable to the farmer.
Seite 217 - An ingenious friend of mine, in order to collect the seed, transplanted a number of the Orchises into a meadow, where he had prepared a bed well manured for their reception. The next spring few of them appeared, and not one came to maturity, their roots being black and half rotten. The same...
Seite 219 - ... or six shillings per pound. The culture of the Orchis, therefore, is an object highly deserving of encouragement from all the lovers of agriculture ; and as the root, if introduced into common use...
Seite 219 - This last, however, sailors are often obliged solely to subsist upon for several months, especially in voyages to Guinea, when the bread and flour are exhausted, and the beef and pork, having been salted...
Seite 219 - Salep is said to contain the greatest quantity of vegetable nourishment in the smallest bulk. Hence a very judicious writer, to prevent the dreadful calamity of famine at sea, has lately proposed that the powder of it should constitute part of the provisions of every ship's company.
Seite 253 - Valwlte, in which the feeds are fixed, along one future only, as in the Pifum, &c.

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