| Carl von Linné - Botany - 1811 - 396 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till, it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...the abode of her vegetable resembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| Gardening - 1831 - 780 pages
...the abode of her vegetable resembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...branches. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler...withers away. Hence, as this plant forms a new genus, I have chosen for it the name of Andromeda." " Botany may be compared to one of those plants which... | |
| William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 420 pages
...the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. Hence, as this... | |
| M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...leaves and branches. As Andromeda cast down her blushing head through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-coloured flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers away. At length Perseus, in the shape of summer, dries up the surrounding water, and destroys the monsters,... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England) - 1843 - 442 pages
...the abode of her vegetable reeembler, and, when they pair in the spring, throw mud and water over its leaves and branches. As the distressed virgin cast...withers away. Hence, as this plant forms a new genus, I have chosen for it the name of Andromeda."* He subsequently pursued the analogy further : "At length,"... | |
| 1848 - 640 pages
...chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. A> the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so does the rosy-colored flower hang its head, growing paler and paler till it withers awaj. At length comes... | |
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