But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. Annals & Magazine of Natural History - 163 페이지1859전체보기 - 도서 정보
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1836 - 440 페이지
...see before this can reach you, so that I will not trouble you with a further description of it. But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species...a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearancesomething which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium NootJtatensis... | |
| William Jackson Hooker, G.A. Walker Arnott - 1841 - 700 페이지
...Journal (Comp. Bet. Meg. vol. II. p. 150.) in the following words :—“ But the great beauty of the Californian vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which...a most peculiar, I was almost going to say awful, appearance,—something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have never seen the Taxodium... | |
| Thomas Nuttall - 1852 - 326 페이지
...Douglas in the Companion to the Botanical Magazine, 2, p. 150. " But the great beauty of the California!! vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...awful, appearance, — something which plainly tells that we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long, and 32... | |
| 1854 - 710 페이지
...wrote thus in a letter to Sir William Hooker, of a coniferous tree inhabiting that coontry : ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species...something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet round at three feet above... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 페이지
...country, of which no further information, nor seeds, nor specimens ever reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species...appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet round,... | |
| 1854 - 652 페이지
...inhabiting that country : ' But the great beauty of Californien vege tation is a species of Tajcodiimt, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet hing and 32 feet round at three feet above... | |
| 1854 - 850 페이지
...ever reached Europe : — ' But the great beauty of Californian vegetation is a species of Tajcodium, which gives the mountains a most peculiar, I was almost...appearance — something which plainly tells us we arc not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree 270 feet long and 32 feet round,... | |
| 1854 - 616 페이지
...was so particularly struck with when he was in California. He says : " The great beauty of California vegetation is a species of Taxodium, which gives the...peculiar, I was almost going to say awful appearance. I have measured specimens 270 to 300 feet high, and 32 feet round, three feet from the ground." There... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 페이지
...seeds, which are afterwards thoroughly dried and pounded into a sort of flour, or else eaten whole." going to say awful appearance — something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe. I have repeatedly measured specimens of this tree two hundred and seventy feet long and thhty-two feet... | |
| 1860 - 390 페이지
...supposed to indicate that he saw the Wellingtonia. " The great beauty of Californian vegetation," he says, "is a species of Taxodium, which gives the mountains...something which plainly tells us we are not in Europe." This of course refers to a tree so common as to give a tone to the general scenery of the country,... | |
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