The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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Linnean Society of New South Wales., 1890
 

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84 페이지 - The fruit is nutritious, warm, cathartic ; in taste delicious, in fragrance exquisite ; its aperient, and detersive quality, and its efficacy in removing habitual costiveness, have been proved by constant experience. The mucus of the seed is for some purposes a very good cement.
391 페이지 - THE SENSES, INSTINCTS, AND INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INSECTS. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart..
49 페이지 - ... as much as possible. The wine itself and the sugar it yields, the black...
49 페이지 - The people have no wheat, but have rice which they eat with milk and flesh. They also have wine from trees such as I told you of. And I will tell you another great marvel. They have a kind of trees that produce flour, and excellent flour it is for food. These trees are very tall and thick, but have a very thin bark, and inside the bark they are crammed with flour.
51 페이지 - When a plantation has once arrived at maturity there will be a constant barvest, because the natural mode of growth secures a continual succession of new plants from the time those first planted have begun to extend their roots, and this succession can be regulated by the knife in any way the planter desires. The sago tree when cut down and the top severed from it, is a cylinder about 20 inches in diameter and 15 to 20 feet in height If we assume 20 in.
51 페이지 - ... more than an acre of potatoes. An acre of sago, if cut down at one harvest, will yield 5220 bushels, or as much as 163 acres of wheat, so that according as we allow 7 or 15 years for the growth of a tree, an acre of sago is equal in annual produce to 23 or 10 acres of wheat.
521 페이지 - Agglutinins begin to appear in the blood serum about the end of the first, or the beginning of the second, week of the disease, with low liters of 1 :20 to 1 :40.
288 페이지 - ... scapus large, disciform; second smaller, globose; flagellar joints globose, gradually diminishing in size, more ovate towards apex, terminal joint elongate-ovate. Proboscis prominent. Palpi four-jointed; first and second joints small, third greatly incrassated, about three times the length of the first or second; fourth not as long as last, slender cylindrical ; wings naked. All longitudinal veins taking their origin at the base of the wing. Venation as figured. Australian species. Genus 2. Tersesthes...
51 페이지 - It may give some idea of the enormous rate of this produce if it be considered that three trees yield more nutritive matter than an acre of wheat, and six trees more than an acre of potatoes. An acre of sago, if cut down at...
49 페이지 - The tree is from fifteen to twenty years in coming to maturity, the fructification then appears, and it soon after decays and dies. The inflorescence is terminal ; several spadices rise from the summit of the stem, enveloped in sheaths at their joints, and alternately branched. It is on these branches that the flowers and fruit are produced, and they are generally from five to eight inches in length.

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