Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Volumen1Sir William Jackson Hooker Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 |
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Página 261 - Rupees the Maund. It is collected in the cold season by making incisions with a knife in the tree, and letting the resin fall on the ground. Hence the dirty and impure state in which it is found in the shops. I have obtained it from September to February, and have found it exude in large tears from a clean incision, of the colour, consistence, and opacity of
Página 124 - For the production of the manna, young and strong shoots are requisite ; but they are not tapped before the tree ceases to push forth any more leaves, and the sap consequently collects in the stem. This period is recognised by the cultivators from the appearance of the leaves ; sometimes it occurs earlier than at others, and the collection of the manna takes place either at the beginning of July or only in August. Close to the soil cross sections are made in the stem, and in the lowermost sections...
Página 125 - ... the more manna is obtained. The stems are left uninjured on one side, so that the manna runs down the smooth bark more easily. The next year the uninjured side is cut. The Manna cannelata is obtained from the upper incisions, more than forty of which may be counted on one tree.
Página 363 - Faccinium,vf\[d strawberry, maple, geranium, bramble. A colder wind blew here : mosses and lichens carpeted the banks and roadsides: the birds and insects were very different from those below; and everything proclaimed the marked change in elevation, and not only in this, but in season, for I had left the winter of the tropics and here encountered the spring of the temperate zone.
Página 334 - I stood, and the ranges as far as the eye can reach cast and west, throw spurs on to the plains of India. These are very thickly wooded, and enclose broad, dead-flat, hot and damp valleys, apparently covered with a dense forest. Secondary spurs of clay and gravel, like that immediately below Punkabaree, rest on the bases of the mountains, and seem to form an intermediate neutral ground between flat and mountainous India. The Terai district...
Página 118 - ... standing beside it. A very touching group was this: the parent with her hands clasped in agony, unable to withdraw her eyes from the cursed reptile, which still clung to life with that tenacity for which its tribe are so conspicuous ; beside these the two athletes leaned on the bloody bamboo staffs, with which they had all but despatched the animal.
Página 362 - Euphorbiaccic spread their long petioles horizontally forth, each terminated with an ample leaf some feet in diameter. Bamboo abounds everywhere ; its dense tufts of culms 100 feet and upwards high are as thick as a man's thigh at the base. Twenty or thirty species of ferns (including a tree fern), were luxuriant and handsome. Foliaceous lichens and a few mosses appeared at 2000 feet, buch is the vegetation of the roads through tne tropical forests of Outer-Himalaya.
Página 282 - ... which were in the night-soil, did not allow them to escape, but treasured them up, and in due time gave them out for the sustenance of the plants placed under its influence. No better agent could be found for improving the sanatory condition of the metropolis. Were a proper system observed by means of this agent, the sewage matter of London could be converted into a source of great profit, while the bad effects arising from the effluvia which emanated from such matter would be got rid of. According...
Página 83 - Mr. Theobald (my companion in this and many other rambles) pulled a lizard from a hole in the bank. Its throat was mottled with scales of brown and yellow. Three ticks had fastened on it, each of a size covering three or four scales : the first was yellow, corresponding with the yellow colour of the animal's belly, where it lodged, the second brown, from the lizard's head ; but the third, which was clinging to the parti-coloured scales of the neck, had its body parti-coloured, the hues corresponding...
Página 13 - As the sun rose, Parasnath appeared against the clear grey sky, in the form of a beautiful broad cone, with a rugged peak, of a deeper grey than the sky. It is a remarkably handsome mountain, sufficiently lofty to be imposing, rising out of an elevated country, the slope of which, upward to the base of the mountain, though imperceptible, is really considerable ; and it is surrounded by lesser hills of just sufficient elevation to set it off.