 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 442 pages
...(See last page ) The flowers nf this plant, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest ohjects in the vegetable world, and appear through a lens like minute rubies and emeralds in a constant motion from the least breath of air. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for... | |
 | 1830 - 632 pages
...of the Hindoos ; respecting which Sir W. Jones observes, " Its flowers, in their perfect state, arc among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world,...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
 | 1830 - 634 pages
...ascertained to be the Durra or Dubgmss of the Hindoos; respecting \\liich Sir W. Jones observes, " Its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the...rubies and emeralds, in constant motion from the least breaili of air. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its nsefulntss, added... | |
 | William Baxter - 1834 - 348 pages
...for its great beauty, as well as for its usefulness — " Its flowers," says this elegant writer, " in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects...the least breath of air. It is the sweetest and most nutricious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their... | |
 | John Jacob - 1836 - 374 pages
...ascertained to be the Durva or Dub grass of the Hindoos ; respecting which Sir VV. Jones observes, " Its flowers in their perfect state are among the loveliest...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos in their earliest ages to believe that it was... | |
 | Lewis Weston Dillwyn - 1839 - 88 pages
...fructification however appears to me to differ materially in our Cornish plant, and Sir W. Jones says, that ' its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the...in constant motion from the least breath of air.' This figure is quoted with a query for Paspalum africanum by Poiret. 48. Scleria lithosperma. Willd.... | |
 | 1839 - 786 pages
...ascertained to be the Durva, or Dub-grass of the Hindoos ; respecting which Sir WM. JONES observes : — " Its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the...in constant motion from the least breath of air." Its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1845 - 494 pages
...^s( dub Name of a grass: (Agrostis linearis, Keen. Cynodon Dactyloit, Boyle). " Its (lowers in the perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the...constant motion from the least breath of air. It is tlio sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness added to its beauty induced... | |
 | Fanny Parkes Parlby - 1850 - 654 pages
...linearis, or panicum dactylon,) is thus described : — The flowers of dub grass in their perfect state appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1852 - 108 pages
...Sir William Jones says — ' Its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects of the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like...sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was... | |
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Rheede has exhibited in a coarse delineation of its leaves only — its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world ; and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least... 
