 It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly bursting in longitudinal furrows. Near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and, upon being wounded, yields plentifully the milky juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared....  Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics ... - Página 2061817Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1882 - 708 páginas
...eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely. It is covered with a whitish bark. Near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than...juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared. The inner bark is of a close fibrous texture, and when separated from the other bark and cleansed from... | |
 | 1874 - 866 páginas
...the height o sixty, seventy, or eighty feet. Close to tht ground the bark is, in old trees, more than an inch thick, and upon being wounded, yields plentifully...juice, from which the celebrated poison is prepared. In clearing new grounds near the tree, the inhabitants do not like to approach it, as they dread the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 páginas
...slightly bursting in longitudinal furrnus: near the ground, the bark is in old trees more than hilf an inch thick, and upon being wounded, yields plentifully the milky juice from which the poison is prepared. A puncture or incision being made in the tree, the juice or snp oozes out of a... | |
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