The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... five successive months , would infalli- bly destroy the promising verdure , were it not that the peasants divide their lands into small squares , about four or five feet each . way , between each pair of which a small channel , made by ...
... five successive months , would infalli- bly destroy the promising verdure , were it not that the peasants divide their lands into small squares , about four or five feet each . way , between each pair of which a small channel , made by ...
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... five - cleft ; receptacle with hairs or linear chaffs : female , in the ray , five , or fewer ; corolla none ; styles two , long ; seeds naked , blunt . There are two species , viz . I. annua , annual iva ; and I. frutescens , shrubby ...
... five - cleft ; receptacle with hairs or linear chaffs : female , in the ray , five , or fewer ; corolla none ; styles two , long ; seeds naked , blunt . There are two species , viz . I. annua , annual iva ; and I. frutescens , shrubby ...
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... five subdivisions , in the fourteenth edition of " Systema Vegetabilium . ” Dr. Withering has forty - eight species in the third edition of his " Arrangement of British Plants ; " he says many of them are beautiful microscopic objects ...
... five subdivisions , in the fourteenth edition of " Systema Vegetabilium . ” Dr. Withering has forty - eight species in the third edition of his " Arrangement of British Plants ; " he says many of them are beautiful microscopic objects ...
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... five ; capsules four or five celled , oblong , gaping at the corners ; seeds numerous , minute . There are eleven species . These are mostly herbaceous plants , natives of North and South America , also of the East and West Indies ...
... five ; capsules four or five celled , oblong , gaping at the corners ; seeds numerous , minute . There are eleven species . These are mostly herbaceous plants , natives of North and South America , also of the East and West Indies ...
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... five - parted ; corolla salver form , with the border five- horned beneath ; capsule five - celled . There are four species , of the K. latifolia , broad- leaved kalmia , we shall give some little ac- count , taken from the fifth volume ...
... five - parted ; corolla salver form , with the border five- horned beneath ; capsule five - celled . There are four species , of the K. latifolia , broad- leaved kalmia , we shall give some little ac- count , taken from the fifth volume ...
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