He was a zealous
botanist, and all his enthusiasm was awakened at beholding a new world, as it were, opening upon him in the boundless prairies, clad in the vernal and variegated robe of unknown flowers.
This vine--of a species which no
botanist has ever been able to name--has an important part in the story of the house.
Nuttall, the
botanist; the same who ascended the Missouri at the time of the expedition to Astoria; and Mr.
And the
botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.
I am not
botanist enough to say whether the change here is owing to the introduction of new species, to the altered growth of the same, or to a difference in their proportional numbers.
Harris 1 Butler 17 Guides 12 Waiters 4 Surgeons 1 Footman 1 Geologist 1 Barber 1
Botanist 1 Head Cook 3 Chaplains 9 Assistants
The second was the man's conventional abode, or rather sleeping-place; it contained a few poor articles of household furniture -- a bed, a table, two chairs, a stone pitcher -- and some dry herbs, hung up to the ceiling, which the count recognized as sweet pease, and of which the good man was preserving the seeds; he had labelled them with as much care as if he had been master
botanist in the Jardin des Plantes.
Botany was, I knew, a favourite study of his: and these flowers were to me so entirely new and mysterious, that I was really curious to see what a
botanist would say of them.
What the
botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.
After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the
botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.
From the top of the chimney he climbed he had caught sight of a new omnibus, whose color and name he had never known, as a naturalist might see a new bird or a
botanist a new flower.
He did this with the peculiar touch of the
botanist. In naming the little green plant to her he used the Latin name, thus disguising some flower familiar even to Chelsea, and making her exclaim, half in amusement, at his knowledge.
botanist - a biologist specializing in the study of plants