 The cacti are plants of a singular structure, but especially the larger kinds of them ; which appear like a large, fleshy, green melon, with deep ribs, set all over with strong sharp thorns, and, when the plants are cut through the middle, their inside...  Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum: Cum Descriptionibus, Synonymis, Locis ... - Seite 176von Adrian Hardy Haworth - 1812 - 334 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1823 - 848 Seiten
...speech ; of which there are two species, aphonia and dysphonia. CACTUS. See BOTANY Index. The cacti are plants of a singular structure, but especially...ribs, set all over with strong sharp thorns, and, when the plants are cut through the middle, their inside is a soft, palegreen, fleshy substance, very... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 Seiten
...CAD 761 CAD i. compressed, with proliferous joints. Prickly pears, or Indian figs. The melon-thistles are plants of a singular structure, but especially...ribs, set all over with strong sharp thorns ; and, when the plants are cut through the middle, their inside is a soft pale-green fleshy substance, very... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell - 1891 - 868 Seiten
...or filaments. Many species have flowers of great beauty, as the Night-blowing Cereus. 1797 The cacti are plants of a singular structure, but especially...deep ribs, set all over with strong sharp thorns: Encyc. Brit., sv 1819 In front rose a hillock covered with ruined koobbehs, cactus hedges and date... | |
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