The Flora of Oxfordshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Found in the County, with Sketches of the Progress of Oxfordshire Botany During the Last Three CenturiesParker and Company, 1886 - 451 pages |
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abundant Adderbury Agrestal Bagley Wood Banbury banks Bees Berks Bicester Binfield Binfield Heath Binsey Boar's Hill Bobart Botanic Broughton Bruern Bucks Bullingdon Green Burford Caversham chalk Charlbury Cherwell Chinnor Christ Church Meadow Club Common Cornfields Cowley Cumnor Dillenius ditches Ditchley Dorchester E. B. viii E. B. xi Elsfield Eynsham Flora flowers Frilford Garden Glareal Gloster Goring Gull H. E. Garnsey Handborough Hanwell Headington hedges Henley Hinksey Iffley Ipsden Isis July June June-Aug Kirtlington Lane Maple Durham Marsh Marston Mixbury Mongewell Native Nettlebed Newb Noke North Leigh Northants Otmoor Ouse Oxford Oxfordshire Oxon Paludal Park Pascual pastures plant Port Meadow Purton rare record roadsides Septal Shotover Sibthorp South species Stokenchurch Stonesfield Stour Stow Wood Swere Sylvestral Syme Tackley Tadmarton Tadmarton Heath Thame Tufnail Upper Heyford walls Warwick Waste ground Wheatley Witney Wolvercote Woodcote Woodstock
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Page 211 - I took leave of my first College, Trinity, which was so dear to me, and which held on its foundation so many who had been kind to me both when I was a boy, and all through my Oxford life. Trinity had never been unkind to me. There used to be much snap-dragon growing on the walls opposite my freshman's rooms there, and I had for years taken it as the emblem of my own perpetual residence even unto death in my University.
Page 305 - I know the wood which hides the daffodil, I know the Fyfield tree, I know what white, what purple fritillaries The grassy harvest of the river-fields, Above by Ensham, down by Sandford, yields, And what sedged brooks are Thames's tributaries; I know these slopes; who knows them if not I?
Page 371 - I could learn never one Greke, neither Latin nor English name, even amongst the physicians, of any herbe or tree, such was the ignorance at that time ; and as yet there was no English herbal, but one all full of unlearned cacographics and falsely naming of herbes.
Page 389 - Graeca,' which comprises about eight hundred and fifty plants, " may be considered," says the author, " as containing only the plants observed by me, in the environs of Athens, on the snowy heights of the Grecian Alp Parnassus, on the steep precipices of Delphis, the empurpled mountains of Hymettus, the Pentele, the lower hills about the Piraeus, the olive grounds about Athens, and the fertile plains of Boeotia.
Page 392 - His integrity, industry, and a natural propriety and courtesy of manners gained him the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
Page 384 - Genera, which he had got half printed from Holland, to be written against him ; but he afterwards detained him a month, without leaving Linnaeus an hour to himself the whole day long ; and at last took leave of him with tears in his eyes, after having given him the choice of living with him till his death, as the salary of the Professorship was sufficient for them both.
Page 292 - O. macro are quite of another kind. Independently of its far more slender habit, narrow few-flowered spikes and bluntish leaves, it is quite remarkable for the exceedingly large cells of the tissue of its lip, which project and have a watery appearance, as if the whole surface were covered with crystalline warts ; the lip is, moreover, destitute of the hispid line which invariably runs through its centre in all the varieties of either O. militaris or tephrosanthos I have had an opportunity of examining.
Page 265 - Where thickened foliage, to the solar ray Impervious, sheds a venerable gloom. Oft in instructive converse we beguiled The fervid time, which each returning year To friendship's call devoted. Such things were ; But are, alas! no more.
Page 389 - ... well have turned him, in some measure, aside from his botanical labours ; he steadily kept in view the great object of his life, to which he finally sacrificed life itself. No name has a fairer claim to botanical immortality, among the martyrs of the science, than that of Sibthorp.
Page xlix - New Botanist's Guide to the localities of the rarer Plants of Britain on the plan of Turner and Dillwyn's Botanist's Guide, by HC "Watson.