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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 11: GraminaIn cultivated ground and waste places. Imperfectly naturalised. It used to occur year after year in Battersea Fields. In 1852 and 1853 it came up abundantly on the mud from the Thames laid down on what is now Battersea Park. It has also been reported from near Guildford and Godalming, Surrey. In the British Flora it is stated to have occurred near Thetford, Nor...

Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 12: Enlarged, Re-Arranged According to the Natural Orders, and Entirely Revised, Cryptogamia, Marsiliaceae to Characeae-General IndexThe following Volume, containing the descriptions of British Crypto gamons Plants, completes the 3rd Edition Of 'english Botany within the limits proposed by its Editor, Mr. Boswell (syme), with the exception Of such supplementary and additi...

Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 6: Or, Coloured Figures of British PlantsOdd segment of the calyx anterior, directed towards the stem. Corolla irregular, frequently more or less 2-lipped. Anthers cohering, usually dissimilar, pollen ovoid. Style glabrous, with a bilobed or entire stigma surrounded by hairs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from A Short History of MethodismShould this Short History create in the minds of readers a desire to learn more of Methodism, and inspire in them a greater love for the Church, the author Will be satisfied.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from A Short History of MethodismShould this Short History create in the minds of readers a desire to learn more of Methodism, and inspire in them a greater love for the Church, the author Will be satisfied.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 7: Or, Coloured Figures of British PlantsCorolla funnel-shaped, scarcely bilabiate. Stamens 4, rarely 2, divergent, nearly equal, anthers 2-celled, cells contiguous.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 5: Or Coloured Figures of British Plants, CompositæLarge herbs, generally biennial, With branched stems or rarely acaulescent. Leaves pinnately lobed or toothed, with the lobes or teeth spinous, generally decurrent on the stem, which thus becomes winged, With the Wings spinous-dentate. Pericline large, sub-globose, spiny. Flowers purple or purplish-rose, varying to White.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) In Two Volumes.

Historian John Boswell argues persuasively that child abandonment was a common and morally acceptable practice from antiquity until the Renaissance. Boswell examines evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. 17 photos.

The latest volume in the Boswell Research Edition contains James Boswell's correspondence over many years with the overseers of his Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire. The letters and the wealth of primary material used to annotate them are a trove of information on the agrarian and social history of eighteenth-century Scotland.The letters present Boswell in a light new to those who know him as a diarist, advocate, and biographer of Samuel Johnson....