A Popular History of British LichensLovell Reeve, 1856 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 33
... yielding valuable purple pigments ; hence many Lichens having this form of thallus are used in the arts . Species with a tartareous thallus most frequently grow on rocks , to which they adhere by their whole under surface so intimately ...
... yielding valuable purple pigments ; hence many Lichens having this form of thallus are used in the arts . Species with a tartareous thallus most frequently grow on rocks , to which they adhere by their whole under surface so intimately ...
Pàgina 81
... yield a gum similar in properties to gum - arabic , for which it has been recommended as a substitute ; such species are Rama- lina fraxinea , Parmelia ceratophylla var . physodes , and Phy- scia prunastri . One of the projects of the ...
... yield a gum similar in properties to gum - arabic , for which it has been recommended as a substitute ; such species are Rama- lina fraxinea , Parmelia ceratophylla var . physodes , and Phy- scia prunastri . One of the projects of the ...
Pàgina 83
... yield to boiling water a jelly , which , when deprived of certain bitter substances , which are also extracted by the water , and flavoured with sugar and spices , mixed with coffee , or forming the basis of soups , constitute very ...
... yield to boiling water a jelly , which , when deprived of certain bitter substances , which are also extracted by the water , and flavoured with sugar and spices , mixed with coffee , or forming the basis of soups , constitute very ...
Pàgina 84
... yielding . These are producible , and are usually produced in the course of manufacture , whether on the large or small scale , by the joint action of atmo- spheric air , water , and ammonia on certain colourless , nitro- genous ...
... yielding . These are producible , and are usually produced in the course of manufacture , whether on the large or small scale , by the joint action of atmo- spheric air , water , and ammonia on certain colourless , nitro- genous ...
Pàgina 88
... yield valuable colorific results are those growing on rocks , having a crustaceous , whitish , warted , friable thallus ; that , to a certain extent , colorific quality is proportionate to the kind or degree of sorediiferous ...
... yield valuable colorific results are those growing on rocks , having a crustaceous , whitish , warted , friable thallus ; that , to a certain extent , colorific quality is proportionate to the kind or degree of sorediiferous ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acid alpine Antarctic regions apothecia apothecium appear Arctic becoming blackish Botany brownish cavity cells cellules Cetraria Cetraria Islandica Char characters chiefly Cladonia COLLEMA colorific colour common species Cornicularia cortical layer corticolous crustaceous Ditto elongated endospore epispore exciple fertile filaments Flora foliaceous frequently fructification fruticulose genera genus globular gonidia greyish growing habitat Highland hypothallus iodine irregular isidioid lacinia Lecanora Lecidea leprose Lichenology Lichens linear lowland and subalpine magnified margin matter medullary membranaceous minute moss mountains naked oblong occurs orchill ostiole pale yellow paraphyses Parmelia saxatilis Peltigera Perithecium Physcia plants PLATE podetia pulverulent Pycnides Ramalina ramose ramules resemble rocks saxicolous section of apothecium section of thallus sessile simple sometimes soredia sorediiferous specimens spermatia spermogones Sphærophoron spores squamules sterigmata and spermatia Sticta Sticta pulmonaria surface thalamium thalline thallus theca thecæ thick tissue trees tumid Umbilicarias Urceolaria Usnea usually varieties various vegetation VERRUCARIA vertical Vincent Brooks whitish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 227 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Pàgina 2 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Pàgina 77 - Seeds, to our eye invisible, will find On the rude rock the bed that fits their kind ; There, in the rugged soil, they safely dwell, Till showers and snows the subtle atoms swell, And spread th...
Pàgina 77 - And spread th' enduring foliage ; — then we trace The freckled flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly spread, Coat above coat, the living on the dead : These then dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder foliage, nursed by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the wall ; Where the wing'd seed may rest, till many a flower Show Flora's triumph...
Pàgina 265 - They find the red cup-moss where they climb, And they chase the bee o'er the scented thyme ; And the rocks where the heath-flower blooms they know — Lady, kind lady, oh! let me go!
Pàgina 9 - In deep tranquillity. Not undelightful now to roam The wild heath sparkling on the sight ; Not undelightful now to pace The forest's ample rounds, And see the spangled branches shine, And mark the moss of many a hue That varies the old tree's brown bark, Or o'er the gray stone spreads.
Pàgina 77 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
Pàgina 197 - They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing of their bridles. On these occasions they sometimes borrow mortal steeds, and when such are found at morning, panting and fatigued in their...
Pàgina 93 - For time has soften'd what was harsh when new And now the stains are all of sober hue; The living stains which Nature's hand alone, Profuse of life, pours forth upon the stone...
Pàgina 5 - That not alone in trees and flowers The spirit bright of Beauty dwells — That not alone in lofty bowers The mighty hand of God is seen — But more triumphant still in things men count as mean LESSON XI.