 | William Roxburgh - Botany - 1832 - 906 pages
...like the male ones. Fruit oval, or oblong, pointed, cells imperfect, from one to four iaches long, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, till ripe striated with white and green, when ripe red. Seeds involved in a red pulp, lobate. The unripe... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...The stones they use are, in general, the branches of coral rocks from eight to fourteen inches long, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. I know not if they employ them as missive weapons ; almost every one of them cames a club, and besides... | |
 | John Quekett - Microscope and microscopy - 1848 - 544 pages
...essential, and must be present in each. The compound body is generally a tube of brass, from eight to ten inches in length, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter ; to its upper end the eye-pieces are adapted, to its lower the objectglasses; as these latter are... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1851 - 804 pages
...elastic strings. 866. Longitudinal vibrations. — Let us suppose a glass tube, about seven feet long, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, to be suspended in equilibrium jjt its middle point. Let one half of it be rubbed upon its surface,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1856 - 458 pages
...explained as applicable to elastic strings. 680. Let us suppose a glass tube, about seven feet long, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, to be suspended in equilibrium at its middle point. Let one half of it be rubbed upon its surface,... | |
 | Louis Figuier - Marine animals - 1868 - 682 pages
...waves and exposed to view at the moment of reflux. The body is from two to three inches in height, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter ; hemispherical when contracted, it resembles a bell perforated at the summit, dilated into a cylinder.... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Physics - 1868 - 476 pages
...explained as applicable to elastic strings. 680. Let us suppose a glass tube, about seven feet long, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, to be suspended in equilibrium at its middle point. Let one half of it be rubbed upon its surface,... | |
 | Fearing Burr - Vegetable gardening - 1874 - 694 pages
...each direction. Requires a long, warm season. Fruit brilliant coral-red, generally pendulous, Long Bed sometimes erect, conical, often curved towards the...skin, or flesh, quite thin, and exceedingly piquant. Stalk about two feet high ; foliage of medinm size, blistered and wrinkled ; flowers an inch in diameter,... | |
 | Joseph Hands - Matter - 1879 - 572 pages
...melodious tones to the latter tuneless noises. If we take some glass tubes from five to seven feet long and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, and suspend them in equilibrium at their middle portions ; on rubbing the surface of one half (thus... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Murrey - Cooking (Salad dressing) - 1884 - 312 pages
...pepper," and by old authors " Piper jEthiopicum." Long Red Pepper. — Pcds or fruit brilliant coral red, generally pendulous, sometimes erect, conical, often...and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter; stalk about two feet high ; foliage of medium size, blistered and wrinkled ; flowers an inch in diameter,... | |
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The specimens tested were rectangular in outline, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. These were dried in a water bath (temp. 
