| Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1803 - 630 pages
...germinating after they had experienced, in a stove, a heat of 235 degrees by the scale of Farenheit. Spallanzani even found, that the seed of mould, which...extremely sensible to the changes of the atmosphere, readily dislodge their seeds on wet days, when the earth is best fitted to receive them- Advantage... | |
| Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 392 pages
...in his learned and charming poem, The Loves of the Plants : " With fierce distracted eye Impaticns stands, " Swells her pale cheeks, and brandishes her...hurls her infants from her frantic arms". CANTO in. I. 131-134. THE pericarp of the Geranium, and the beard of the Wild-Oat (Avena fatua), are twisted,... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...playful groups by toweringThorp they move, Bound o'er the foaming wears, and rush into the Dove. ISO With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stands, Swells her pale cheeks, and brandishes her hands, Impatiens. 1. 131. Touch me not. The seed vessel consists of one cell with five divisions ; each of... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...much branched. It is a native of the East Indies, China, and Japan, and also of America. IMPATIENCE. With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stands, Swells...and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished grove alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms. Darwin. SENTIMENT. There are... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...and much'branched. It is a native of the East Indies, China, Japan, anil also'of,America. IMPATIENCE. With fierce distracted eye, Impatiens stands, Swells...and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished grove alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms. DARWIN. SENTIMENT. There are... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...and much branched. It is a native of the East j^^ Chinai j apall, and also of America. IMPATIENCE. With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stands, Swells...and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished grove alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms. SENTIMENT. There are some things... | |
| Robert Tyas - Emblems - 1851 - 370 pages
...Garden,' and this is the reason that it bears the common name touch-me-not, by which it is known." "With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stands, Swells...and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished groves alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms." In the days of chivalry, it... | |
| Robert Tyas - Flowers in art - 1851 - 312 pages
...it bears the common name touch-me-not, by which it is known." " With fierce distracted eye Impatiena stands, Swells her pale cheeks and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished groves alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms." In the days of chivalry, it... | |
| Robert Tyas - Flowers in heraldry - 1851 - 382 pages
...the common name touch-me-not, by which it is known." " With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stand a, Swells her pale cheeks and brandishes her hands ; With rage and hate the astonished groves alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms." In the days of chivalry, it... | |
| William Darlington - Botany - 1853 - 598 pages
...lines, from DARWIN, probably have reference to the European species, — but may apply to all: — "With fierce distracted eye IMPATIENS stands, Swells...and brandishes her hands, "With rage and hate the astonished groves alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms." ORDER XXIY. TROPAEOLACEAE.... | |
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