"Ipomoea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there is an abundance of water to be found in holes and reaches of the rivers and creeks. Where there was any scrub by the side of the creeks, it was composed principally of the climbing palm (Calamus), Glyceria, Kennedya, Mucuna, and a strong growing Ipomoea, with herbaceo-fibrous roots and palmate leaves; and in a few places ...
— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray
... from their efficacy in binding down the drift sand with their long trailing stems, an office performed in Britain by the bent grass (Arundo arenaria) here represented by another grass, Ischaemum rottboellioide: the others are a handsome pink-flowered convolvulus (Ipomoea maritima) one stem of which measured 15 yards in length, and Hibbertia volubilis, a plant ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray
... also species of the genera Vigna, Tephrosia, Melaleuca, Callistemon, Haloragis, Pterigeron, Brachycome, Dampiera, Ipomoea, Morgania, Enchylaena, and Atriplex; as also additional species of Rulingia, Abutilon, Sida, Dodonaea, Euphorbia, Spyridium, Acacia (many), Eucalyptus, Scaevola, Goodenia, Eremophila, Heliotropium, Rhagodia, Ptilotus, Hakea, and Panicum, but none ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles
... The Goat's-foot Ipomoea[1], which appears to encircle the world, abounds on these shores, covering the surface to the water's edge with its procumbent branches, which sending down roots from every joint serve to give the ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... Viburnum. Scabiosa. *Campanula! Platycodon! Calluna! Azalea! Rhododendron! *Arbutus! *Erica! *Anagallis! *Primula! *Jasminum! Syringa! *Vinca! *Nerium! Allamanda! Tabernaemontana. *Calystegia! Convolvulus! Ipomoea. *Datura! *Petunia! Solanum! Orobanche. Gentiana. Mimulus. *Antirrhinum! Gratiola! *Digitalis! *Linaria! Veronica! Calceolaria! Achimenes. Gloxinia! Clerodendron! Bignonia. Cyclamen! Mirabilis. Laurus! Gladiolus! Crocus! Iris! *Galanthus! Leucojum! Sternbergia! ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters |
