A Catalogue of Plants Growing in the Vicinity of Berwick Upon Tweed |
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adder Alderson's Alderson's-Dean April arvensis Ash-Wood Bamborough Banks beyond Spittal Banks beyond Yarrow-Haugh Belford Berwick Boggy Borders of Fields Burgesses Cove Calf-Hill Carex Castle Castle-Hills Class Coast Common Corn Fields Cultivated Grounds Dike Ditches Dodses Dodses-Well Dry Pastures East Ord Edrington Feather-moss Field Farm House Fucus Goswick gravelly Pastures Haggerston Heaths Hedges and Thickets hermaphrodite hermaphrodite flower Heugh Hill Holy Island July June June-Aug King's Mount Lamberton Shields Langley Ford Links Liverwort Logan's-Folly Marshall-Meadows Marshes Meadows and Pastures Mill Banks Moist Meadows MONOGYNIA Moors west Mount Bastion Mountains Murton Craigs Needle-eye North Ord Mill Order Pistil plants Quarry Ramparts River Banks Rivulets Rocks Sandy Shores Sater-path Haven Scrammerston Sea and River Sea Banks Sea Shores Sept shady Singing Cove Spittal Point Stamens Steps of Grace Styles Turnpike Tweed Banks Tweedmouth Fields vulgaris Wastes and Road-sides west of Belford Woods and Hedges Wooler Water wort Yarrow Yarrow-Haugh
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Page vi - ... unbounded scheme of things; Mark'd their dependance so, and firm accord, As with unfaultering accent to conclude That this availeth nought? Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing — desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns?
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Page vii - Stands each attractive plant , and sucks , and swells The juicy tide; a twining mass of tubes. At THY command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap , detruded to the root By wintry winds , that now in fluent dance. And lively fermentation , mounting , spread* All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.
Page vii - The juicy tide — a twining mass of tubes. At thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap, detruded to the root By wintry winds, that now in fluent dance, And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads 570 All this innumerous-colour'd scene of things.
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Page xvii - Yet to these humbler tribes has prudent Heaven Imperfect life and narrowed instinct given. The brute creation, nearer to our own, Less strangers too, with happier ease are known. Whether as subjects or as foes they live, Or with their friendship their attendance...