The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 266
variouslysinuated,andlobed; the lobes beingir-regularly divided, notched, and fringedat the margin with hairs. The surfaceof the whole vegetable is smooth, shining, of a rich chestnut brown colour,with a green tinge when wet, paler underneath. In such plants as grow inthe shade, the colour is a… … Pomological Magazine. 257 parts of this moss are found to contain 44 of starch, and56 of starchy inso-luble matter, so that it must be very nourishing in proportion to its bulk,and capable of yielding ardent spirit. The Saxon government lately pub-lished their report, for the information of its…
