The Indiana Weed BookNature publishing Company, 1912 - 191 ページ |
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1-3 feet high Achenes annual autumn axillary axils basal base blossom borders bracts branched Britton and Brown burs calyx capsule carpels clover clusters common corn cockle corolla crops cultivated fields curled dock deep cutting dense disk-flowers dodder drupe farmer fence-rows fertilization flat flowers fruit gardens glabrous grain grass green ground hairs hairy Heads numerous herbs hoe or spud inch broad inches long Indiana involucre iron-weed juice July-Oct July-Sept June-Oct June-Sept lanceolate leaf leaves linear lobes meadows moist mullen nettle nutlets oblong odor ovary ovate ovules panicle pappus pastures perennial petals pigweed pistils plant plantain plowing pods poisonous pollen pound prickly pulling purple racemes ragweed rays receptacle Remedies repeated mowing roadsides roots rootstocks rows sandy seeds seeds ripen sepals sessile short-stalked slender soil species spikelets spikes spreading spring stalks stamens Stem erect stout thickets thistle toothed tube umbel upper usually Vasey waste places weeds wholly wide yellow
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2 ページ - GIVE me truths ; For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs and simples of the wood, Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony, Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras, Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sundew, And rare and virtuous roots, which in these woods Draw untold juices from the common earth...
73 ページ - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
172 ページ - But one the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray.
2 ページ - But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
176 ページ - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
110 ページ - ... began a downfall which has continued until it presents the degraded spectacle of a plant " without a root, without a twig, without a leaf, and having a stem so useless as to be inadequate to bear its own weight.
173 ページ - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
50 ページ - Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air, those three physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than those minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass, and when the...
8 ページ - I took in February three tablespoonfuls of mud from three different points, beneath water, on the edge of a little pond : this mud when dried weighed only 6^ ounces; I kept it covered up in my study for six months, pulling up and counting each plant as it grew ; the plants were of many kinds, and were altogether 537 in number; and yet the viscid mud was all contained in a breakfast cup!
50 ページ - Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the fitful fever is ended, and the foolish wrangle of the market and forum is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent into the bosom of the earth has made, and the carpet of the infant becomes the blanket of the dead.