Not less so are the cecropia trees, with their white stems and large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen from some invisible tree-top above, or... The Nicaragua Canal - Page 107by William E. Simmons - 1900 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Belt - Natural history - 1874 - 442 pages
...large palmatcd leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...above, or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - Color - 1878 - 416 pages
...large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...invisible tree-top above ; or the air is filled with a delieious perfume, the souree of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are... | |
| Thomas Belt - Natural history - 1888 - 454 pages
...large palmated leaves standing tip like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...lost in the great overshadowing crown of verdure. Numerous babbling brooks intersect the forest, with moss-covered stones and fern-clad nooks. One's... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1890 - 664 pages
...large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks in vain, for the flowers which cause it are far overhead out of sight,... | |
| George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1892 - 672 pages
...large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain. "THE SHADOWS LENGTHEN. and a thousand epiphytes perch... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature - 1891 - 516 pages
...forests ; but leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with, large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 492 pages
...large palmated leaves standing up like great candelabra. Sometimes the ground is carpeted with large flowers, yellow, pink, or white, that have fallen...above ; or the air is filled with a delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around in vain, for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 490 pages
...delicious perfume, the source of which one seeks around 28 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE CHAP. in vain, for the flowers that cause it are far overhead out of...lost in the great overshadowing crown of verdure." "But," he adds, ''the uniformity of climate which has led to this rich luxuriance and endless variety... | |
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