 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1878 - 214 pages
...thickly set with very strong thorny hooks. These dark green leaves were hanging very limp and lifeless. The apex of the cone was a round, white, concave figure, like a smaller plate set within a larger, and there exuded into it a clear treacle, honey-sweet liquid, that possessed violent intoxicating and... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1878 - 214 pages
...thickly set with very strong thorny hooks. These dark green leaves were hanging very limp and lifeless. The apex of the cone was a round, white, concave figure, like a smaller plate set within a larger, and there exuded into it a clear treacle, honey-sweet liquid, that possessed violent intoxicating and... | |
 | Madagascar - 1896 - 442 pages
...thus limp and lifeless, dead-green in colour, had in appearance the massive strength of oak fibre. The apex of the cone was a round white concave figure,...and soporific properties. From underneath the rim (so to speak) of the uppermost plate, a series of long hairy green tendrils stretched out in every... | |
 | Chase Salmon Osborn - Ethnology - 1924 - 514 pages
...hanging thus limp and lifeless, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength of oak fibre. The apex of the cone was a round white concave figure...and soporific properties. From underneath the rim (so to speak) of the undermost plate a series of long hairy green tendrils stretched out in every direction... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1875 - 680 pages
...had in appearance the massive strength of oak fiber. The apex of the cone was a round concave ttgure like a smaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flower but a receptacle, and there exudes it into a clear, treacly liquid honey, sweet and possessed of violent intoxicating soporific... | |
 | Farmers' Alliance - 1877 - 466 pages
...thus linip and lifeless, dead green in colour, had in appearance the mas&ive strength of oak fibre. The apex of the cone was a round white, concave figure, like a tmaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flower but a receptacle, and there exnded into... | |
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These leaves hanging thus limp and lifeless, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength of oak fibre. The apex of the cone was a round white concave figure like a smaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flower but a receptacle,... 