Reports on the Herbaceous Plants and on the Quadrupeds of Massachusetts |
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Page iii - Reports — on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds; the Herbaceous Plants and Quadrupeds; the Insects Injurious to Vegetation ; and the Invertebrate Animals of Massachusetts. Published agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State.
Page 115 - In some parts of England," says Dr. Lindley " the pompion (corruptly, pumpkin) is sometimes planted by cottagers on dunghills, and suffered to trail at length over the grass of an orchard. When the fruit is ripe they cut a hole in one side, and, having taken out the seeds, fill the void space with sliced apples, adding a little sugar and spice, and then, having baked the whole, eat it with butter under the name of
Page 198 - ... of a different form from the others, and very often spurred at the base. Stamens 3, united in a central column, the 2 lateral usually abortive, the central perfect, or the central abortive, and the 2 lateral perfect ; anther either persistent or deciduous, 2- or 4- or 8-celled ; pollen, either powdery or cohering in definite or indefinite waxy masses, either adhering to a gland or loose in their cells.
Page 256 - Proceedings of the Boston Natural History Society, 1845-'6;" "Catalogue of Molluscas of Vermont," in the American "Journal of Science;" "Description of Molluscas of Vermont...
Page 68 - Squirrel varies considerably in color, but is most com monly of a fine blueish gray, mingled with a slight golden hue. This golden color is especially obvious on the head, along the sides, where the white hair of the belly approaches the gray of the sides, and on the anterior part of the fore and superior part of the hind feet, where it is very rich and deep. This mark on the hind feet is very permanent, and evident even in those varieties which differ most from the common color. There is one specimen...
Page 79 - So far as game and hunting are concerned, the sooner our wild animals are extinct the better, for they serve to support a few individuals just on the borders of a savage state, whose labors in the family of man are more injurious than beneficial. It is not, therefore, so much to be regretted that our larger animals of the chase have disappeared. What comforts their fur and their skins have provided, can be abundantly supplied by animals already domesticated, at far less expense, both of time and...
Page 30 - Five or six species" (of Delphinium) "are cultivated in the gardens for their beauty. The bee larkspur bears a flower which has, at a little distance, a striking resemblance to a bee. Some of these species are not found in common gardens, and have not been introduced many years.
Page 172 - It is doubtful whether all the benefits which have accrued to Europe from the discovery of America, have not been counterbalanced by the introduction of this universal luxury, produced at the expense of human liberty, and of a soil which could otherwise be employed in augmenting the necessaries of life, independent of the diseases inseparable from the use of so powerful a narcotic.
Page 231 - For whose benefit and edification, whether the hotanist's or that of the common reader, the following is given, we do not decide. " In adverting to the use of the grasses for the food of man, it should be remarked that the potato, buckwheat, yams, manihot, batatas, bananas, bread fruit, several palms, and some esculent species of arum, by means of which so many millions are supported, belong to other orders of the vegetable kingdom. The same remark should be made in respect to the pea, bean, cabbage,...
Page 31 - That garden, we opine, must be indeed common, or rather uncommon, which does not boast of five or six species of larkspur. "Again, — Paeonia officinalis L. is the well known paeony of our gardens. As the flower becomes double, or the stamens change into petals by cultivation, it is admired for its large head of petals, as well as for its fine foliage. * * * Many of the species are splendid ornaments of the greenhouse.