The Shrubs of Northeastern AmericaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893 - 249 páginas |
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alternate Andrómeda Anthers Apex axils Azalea Barberry bark base berry blossoms Blueberry blunt bracts branches branchlets Buckthorn bush calyx capsule cell Chokeberry compound compound leaf Corolla Crataegus Crow-Berry cultivation downy beneath drooping clusters drupe edge entire eight feet high evergreen Family Figure five-celled fleshy Flower-clusters Flower-stems Flowers Found four inches long Fruit Genus Gooseberry Greek words meaning greenish hairy half inches long heart-shaped Huckleberry Jersey Jersey Tea June lance-shape Laurel leaf Leaf-stem Leaflets Leaves lobes many-seeded Michx Mistletoe mountains nearly northward and westward nutlets oblong oftenest one-celled one-seeded Pennsylvania Petals pistillate pistillate forms Prickly Prickly Ash purple reverse egg-shape ripening rounded Seed-case Sepals Shepherdia short shrub shrub three simple slender slightly smooth sometimes southward species differs St.-John's-wort Stamens stemless stems Stone style Sumach terminal clusters Thorn three inches long three to five toothed Tourn two-celled two-seeded usually Viburnum whitish Willow Witch-Hazel woods young seeds
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Página 185 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Página 168 - This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of this plant.
Página 168 - As I contemplated it, I could not help thinking of Andromeda as described by the poets; and the more I meditated upon their descriptions, the more applicable they seemed to the little plant before me ; so that, if these writers had had it in view, they could scarcely have contrived a more apposite fable.
Página 96 - Jove would give the leafy bowers A queen for all their world of flowers, The rose would be the choice of Jove, And blush, the queen of every grove.
Página xii - His book just out describes in accurate botanical language some hundreds of duly il.-i--.iHcd shrubs found native in Canada and the United States east of the Mississippi and north of the latitude of Southern Pennsylvania, together with some of the more important ones introduced from other regions.
Página 103 - Gardyn ; and there he was first examyned righte scharply; and there the Jewes scorned him, and maden him a Crowne of the Braunches of Albespyne, that is White Thorn, that grew in that same Gardyn, and setten it on his Heved, so faste and so sore, that the Blood ran down be many places of his Visage, and of his Necke, and of his Schuldres. And...