A Botanical Guide to the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mosses, and Algæ, Found Indigenous Within Sixteen Miles of Manchester: With Some Information as to Their Agricultural, Medicinal, and Other Uses |
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Abundant Alderley Edge Altrincham ARVENSIS August Autumn Baguley Moor Bamford Wood banks of rivers Boggart-hole Clough boggy situations Bowdon Broughton Bucklow Hill canal Carex Chat Moss Cheshire Chorlton Chorlton and Withington Clayton Vale Clifton Aqueduct colour Compstall Cotterill Clough Cotterill Wood cows Cultivated fields ditch banks Eccles flowers fond Frequent goats eat grass Greenfield Hale Moss Heaths hedge banks HOOK horses Hough End Hough End Hall Irwell it.-Linn Jackson's Boat July July-August June June-July Kersal Moor lane leaves left bank Leigh Lindow Common LINN Manchester Marple Aqueduct Marple Vale Marsh May-June Meadows and pastures Mersey Moist banks Moist woods N. O. GRAMINEÆ neighbourhood Northen Pilkington pits pitsteads plant plentiful Prestwich Rare Red-brows Reddish Vale right bank Ringway river Irwell road sides Rocks roots Rosthern seeds sparingly species Spring Staly Brushes Stretford swine refuse thickets Tyldesley unfrequent VULGARIS walls waste places Winter Withington Woods and hedges yellow
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Page 149 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 119 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...
Page 35 - And hail, my son," the reverend sire replied ; Words follow'd words, from question answer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road ; Till each with other pleas'd, and loth to part, While in their age they differ, join in heart : Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound, Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around. Now...
Page 119 - Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber, or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn.
Page 32 - From a quarter to half an ounce of the inner bark, boiled in small beer, is a sharp purge.
Page 28 - Now in my walk, with sweet surprise, I saw the first Spring cowslip rise, The plant whose pensile flowers Bend to the earth their beauteous eyes, In sunshine as in showers.
Page 20 - The expressed juice of the stem and leaves, taken to the amount of four ounces night and morning, is very efficacious in removing many of those cutaneous eruptions which are called, although improperly, scorbutic.
Page 33 - It is of considerable use in chymical inquiries, to detect an acid or an alkali ; the former changing the blue colour to a red, and the latter to a green.
Page 91 - They also affirm that they are good against most diseases of the thorax, and that by the use of them they are enabled to repel hunger and thirst for a long time. In Breadalbane and Ross-shire they sometimes bruise and steep them in water, and make an agreeable fermented liquor with them, called cairm.
Page xii - All nature ia a glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun.