The Annals And Magazine Of Natural History Including Zoology Botany And Geology Vol 16

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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 7 written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 7: Including Zoology, Botany and Geology I. - Considerations respecting Spur-shaped Nectaries, and those of the Aquilegia vulgaris in particular. By M. Ch. Morren, Professor in ordinary at the University of Liege, Member of the Royal Academy of Brussels, &c. The Columbine, that pretty ranunculaceous flower of our woods, deserves attention, as well on account of its structure, curious as it is, and, we venture to add, but little known, as from the historical recollections which it brings to mind. To say nothing here of the medicinal virtues which Dioscorides attributed to his Isopyron or to his Phasiolon, - a plant which Fabius Columna, Clusius, Dodonaeus and many other learned botanists suppose to be no other than the Columbine itself; and not to mention Adrian Junius, who also quotes it as a medical plant; or Francois Rapard, a celebrated physician of Bruges, who addressed to Clusius a letter upon its uses in difficult labours; ought we not to remark that its singular nectaries, compared by some to the beak and talons of an eagle, by others to the graceful neck of the pigeon, by some to rams' -horns, and by others to capuchins' hoods, had so gained the attention of the painters of the middle ages, that it became one of the favourite flowers, placed in great profusion in the illuminations of missals and manuscripts of the time? The 'ancoiles' or the 'ancolyes' were there intermixed with the leaves, flowers, or fruit of the strawberry or of the campanula; and Memling was most particularly attached to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."