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    anthus


    1. I turn and stare at the prickly bush filling the flowerbed under the lounge window … pyrocanthus? Is that what it is called? It’s got vicious, long thorns, that thing


    2. Bougainvillea, morning glory, hollyhocks, dusty white acanthus, all waving and grinning from everyday, ordinary tins brightened with casual splashes of paint - they just wouldn't look the same in Britain


    3. ‘Pyracanthus would be more sensible


    4. The area closer to the house was densely planted with growing beings rescued from destruction in the previous garden: lithe birch trees graceful as dancers, clumps of fairy-like nandina, stately arum lilies, agapanthus mounding greenly, fine-leafed groundcovers spilling over every surface


    5. Ailanthus is the genus of Tree of Heaven, which is an ornamental tree that was introduced into the U


    6. The usefulness of phyllanthus extracts for treating pain


    7. “Then he spent another year capturing a great boar from Mount Erymanthus


    8. The Bellus Angelfish (Genicanthus bellus) is one of the smaller saltwater angelfish species that is


    9. They are also called the Annularis Angelfish because of the scientific name (Pomacanthus annularis)


    10. The Regal Angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus) is also known as the Royal Angelfish

    11. Carnation is a species of Dianthus


    12. And so he went on naming a number of knights of one squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned off-hand their arms, colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by the illusions of his unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he continued, "People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, those that scour the woody Massilian plains, those that sift the pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that enjoy the famed cool banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many and various ways divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the


    13. Do thou, therefore, O Rhadamanthus, who sittest in judgment with me in the murky caverns of Dis, as thou knowest all that the inscrutable fates have decreed touching the resuscitation of this damsel, announce and declare it at once, that the happiness we look forward to from her restoration be no longer deferred


    14. But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed


    15. For flowers of our home: amaranthus, jessamine


    16. 405, Xanthus, one of Achilles' horses ('twas Juno's will to make vocal the palate of the one,' to use Chapman's words), answers his master's charge to acquit himself well with a prediction that 'not far hence the fatal minutes are Of his grave ruin


    17. In the same family there may be a genus, as Dianthus, in which very many species can most readily be crossed; and another genus, as Silene, in which the most persevering efforts have failed to produce between extremely close species a single hybrid


    18. As soon as the three Orchidean forms, Monachanthus, Myanthus, and Catasetum, which had previously been ranked as three distinct genera, were known to be sometimes produced on the same plant, they were immediately considered as varieties; and now I have been able to show that they are the male, female, and hermaphrodite forms of the same species


    19. It is a truly grotesque vegetation, whose forms and color we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable leaves; destined perhaps, under some circumstances, to become a puzzle to future geologists


    20. I forward you specimens of straw and rose-coloured amianthus I recently met with on Staten-Island, which I detached, in strips, from a rock; it not appearing, as is usual, in veins

    21. A species of steatite, containing veins of common, indurated, and scaly talc, amianthus, and most of the varieties of asbestus, and some chromate of iron, constitutes the nucleus of the whole mountain range and elevated ground of the eastern division, stamping it as primitive


    22. Amianthus in the anthracite of Rhode Island ibid


    23. The fragments of this were wedge-shaped, and I found the space between some of the laminæ filled up by a fibrous, silky substance, which induced me to break up other masses, in one of which I discovered an abundance of amianthus; the filaments are of a light-green colour in some parts of the mass—in others presenting different shades of brown


    24. The asbestos often is in the form of the most delicate amianthus, frequently blended also with the slate rocks, which form the roof and pavement of this coal


    25. A specimen now lies before us, in which a complete vein of this amianthus, with fibres nearly two inches in length, connects and pervades a mass of slate, supposed to be of the transition class


    26. The truth is, these bottles contain a little amianthus moistened with sulphuric acid, which thus kindles the match, but as the acid soon weakens by attracting water from the air, it is better to use a phial of the acid in the liquid state


    27. —, on the Emys Blandingii and a Syngnanthus, xxxviii, 195


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