Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian: Botany (1878)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 "12 photolithographs (heavily retouched), 3 chromolithographs. The photographs are by T.H. O'Sullivan and William Bell. These views, typical of the toned photolithographs published in Government reports, are striking scenes of the Western landscape, translated to this medium with a great deal of graphic richness. This title is also of prime importance because it lists every photographer for every one of the Government's surveys"--Hanson Collection catalog, page 100. |
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Pàgina 2 - ... is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun -would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost.
Pàgina 47 - It also holds a place among domestic remedies, for the same purpose that flaxseed occasionally docs with us, ie, a grain of the seed is placed in the eye (where it gives no pain) to form a mucilage by means of which a foreign body may be removed from the organ. I have found it of great service as a poultice. As a matter of archaeological interest, it may be noted that quantities of this seed were found buried in graves several hundred years old. This proves that the use of the seed reaches back into...
Pàgina ii - An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes'.
Pàgina 46 - Benth. The .seeds are collected, roasted and ground, in the native way, between two .stones. This puts it in the condition in which I first saw it. It is used as a food by mixing it with water and enough sugar to suit the taste. It soon develops into a copious mucilaginous mass, several times the original bulk. The taste is somewhat suggestive of linseed meal. One soon acquires a fondness for it and eats it rather in the way of a luxury than with any referen«1 to the fact that it is exceedingly...
Pàgina 47 - Chia was, among the Nahua races of ancient Mexico, as regularly cultivated as corn, and often used in connection with it. Indeed, it was one of the many kinds of meal in constant use and which appear to have gone then, as now, under the generic name of piuoli.
Pàgina 197 - Stems short and slender, 1-2 inches high, leafy above; pubescence minute or hirsute; leaves alternate, £-1 inch long, oblong, attenuate into a short petiole, entire, or some of them broader and 3-lobed ; bracts entire, resembling the leaves, twice longer than the calyx ; flowers nearly sessile ; calyx with ovate-triangular teeth, shorter than the tube; corolla funnelform, 8...
Pàgina 195 - ... inches long ; the upper lanceolate and at length linear : flowers very numerous in a long leafy thyrsus : lobes of the greenish-white or barely bluish and dark-dotted corolla oval-oblong, bearing a pair of contiguous and densely long-fringed glands about the middle, and a distant transversely inserted and setaceously in nit itid scale-like crown near the base.
Pàgina ii - Other recent transfers include the original manuscript maps of the United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian...
Pàgina 65 - ... diffuse ; leaflets cuneate-obovate, obtuse; style filiform. Annual, stem smooth, the branches spreading, about a span long, hairy in the axils. Leaves, or petioles, an inch or more in length ; the lamina of the leaflets 4 — 6 lines long, apiculate with a deciduous bristle, nearly smooth above, sparsely strigose underneath. Pedicels solitary and axillary, in the upper part of the branches, longer than the petioles. Calyx much shorter than the corolla ; the sepals lacerately 3 — 5 toothed.