Bauhinia

“ The climbing Bauhinias (Caesalpinioideae) have a flattened stem with basin-like undulations; in some growth in thickness is normal, in others new cambium-zones are found concentrically, while in others new and distinct growth-centres, each with its cambium-zone, arise outside the primary zone. The climbing Mimosoideae show no anomalous growth in thickness, but in some cases the stem becomes strongly winged. Gum passages in the pith and medullary rays occur, especially in species of acacia and Astragalus ”

“ His son, Jean Gaspard Bauhin (1606-1685) , was professor of botany at Basel for thirty years. His elder brother, Jean Bauhin (1541-1613) , after studying botany at Tübingen under Leonard Fuchs (1501-1566) , and travelling with Conrad Gesner, began to practise medicine at Basel, where he was elected professor of rhetoric in 1766. Four years later he was invited to become physician to the duke of Württemberg at Montbéliard, where he remained till his death in 1613. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. ”

“ He is also ingenious at constructing subsidiary defences. On the outbreak of hostilities the neighbourhood of a village is thickly studded with small bamboo javelins, which are extremely difficult to distinguish from the grass and brushwood. Some of our party received grievous wounds from these concealed weapons.
The forests we encountered during our topographical survey are the home of a certain kind of buffalo of immense size. This species, which is very rare and not found elsewhere, is no other than the Aurochs, which are called "Con-minh" by the Annamites and "Co-bay" by the Moï. ”

“ Their hearts roll’d in their breasts!
“Never man can have fish’d here before. Let us anchor!” they pleaded;
And Maui said, “Anchor, and fish!”
For he knew where he was, and he knew he was where he would be.
Oh! Oh, those fish!....Enough! It was even as he said—
So many! so large! and they surely desired to get eaten!
Lo! at the cast of the hook, how they came flocking, and flocking!
Two castings apiece, and behold! the canoe, it was full!
Great then were the hearts of these Brothers! They said,
“It is well! and now let us for home.”
But Maui said humbly, “O Brothers! ”

“ O defile not my Fish!
When I come, I will portion it all.” So he went.
But what then said these Brothers?
Aha! As the [22] kotare, perched and asleep, hears the fish-rippled water, and straightway awakes,
They awoke!
“Who is Maui?” said they “who that babe, with his portion, and portion?
What wits he of division? What recks he of custom, time-honour’d?
What does a young man know?
His fish! Was it not our canoe?
Come!” They trampled his words underfoot, and leapt out on the beaches.
“This my land!” shouted one, and he set up his paddle upon it,
“This to me!” “This to me!” ”

“ The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread back into unknown regions the woman had drawn an imaginary line, and past this circle she never stepped. ”

“ Finds the canoe, and there, under the bottom-boards,
Ha! in he crawls, and lies close.
Huge is the night, and the loneliness gruesome and terrible,
Sharp howls the wind, the old Sea moans there over his shoulder—
As a widow, a mother, they wail, at a death, at a [3] tangi;
And the Darkness was dreadful all round, a deep darkness of Death!
“Laugh, O my heart!” murmurs Maui,
And waits for the Dawn.
And at Dawn come his Brothers, intent on their old daily duty—
In their old fishing-ground to catch fish. ”

“ At last a humble mansion received them, a small thatched cottage, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemon, united when young, had grown old together. Not ashamed of their poverty, they made it endurable by moderate desires and kind dispositions. One need not look there for master or for servant; they two were the whole household, master and servant alike. When the two heavenly guests crossed the humble threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which Baucis, bustling and attentive, spread a cloth, and begged them to sit down. ”

“ The trunk of the baobab could no longer afford protection. In another minute it, too, would be enveloped in the red fire, and to stay by its side would be to perish in the flames. There was no alternative but to get to his feet and run for his life.
Not a moment was to be lost, and, slipping from under the tree, he started off at the top of his speed. The chances were in his favour for escaping unobserved by the rhinoceros. But fortune seemed decidedly against him. Before getting twenty paces from the tree, he saw that he was pursued. ”

“ Manuka dark-ey’d, Convolvulus, Clematis star-ey’d—
The glittering of you that morning! fresh, dripping with dews of the Ocean,
New rays to the young, early sun!
The host of your [14] taua, address’d as to fight! of your lances and [15] meres of green-stone,
Bristling all suddenly upward, lustrously tossing in glory,
A green sea, high in the air!
Pull on! Pull away!
I see shining and shining below here.
Is there a Sun in the Sea? a young Sky in the water? ”

“ But this wonder will cease when I inform you, that the hallowing out of a chamber in the trunk of a baobab is a mere bagatelle, and costs but trifling labour. The wood of this great tree is remarkably soft and porous, and a cavity can be scooped out in it, almost as easily as in the side of a turnip—at all events with not greater difficulty than in a hard bank of clay or earth; and it is not uncommon for the negroes to hew out large chambers in the trunks of the baobab for other purposes besides the one above-mentioned. ”

“ NNW Esteli, Nicaragua, have faded from near Chaetura Black to the present Fuscous-Black in a period of two years. The most notable change in color came after the first six months of preservation. Allowing for this fading, the [Pg 402] several color differences between pullus, nigrescens and grisescens are, nevertheless, distinctive.
Table 1.—Analysis of Variation in Adults of Four Subspecies of Baiomys Musculus (measurements in millimeters)
Geographically, pullus is partly isolated by the Cerros De Villaguaire and the Cerros El Zapotillo to the west and the Cerros De Azaculapa to the north. ”

“ Among organic creations, this tree is undoubtedly, together with the Adansonia or baobab of Senegal, one of the oldest inhabitants of our globe. The baobabs are of still greater dimensions than the dragon-tree of Orotava. There are some which near the root measure 34 feet in diameter, though their total height is only from 50 to 60 feet. But we should observe, that the Adansonia, like the ochroma, and all the plants of the family of bombax, grow much more rapidly* than the dracaena, the vegetation of which is very slow. ”

“ The cave of Bauman’s hole, also in the Hartz district, was said, in the middle of the last century, to have been haunted by divers apparitions, and to contain a treasure guarded by black mastiffs; and in Burrington Combe, in Somersetshire, some twenty years ago, a cave was dug out by a working man, under the impression that it contained gold. The hills of Granada are still believed, by the Moorish children, to contain the great Boabdil and his sleeping host, who will awake when an adventurous mortal invades their repose, and will issue forth to restore the glory of the Moorish kings. ”

“ He offered them in triumph to Mme. Rosémilly, who was afraid to touch them, for fear of the sharp, serrated crest which arms their heads. However, she made up her mind to it, and taking them up by the tip of their long whiskers she dropped them one by one into her creel, with a little seaweed to keep them alive. Then, having found a shallower pool of water, she stepped in with some hesitation, for the cold plunge of her feet took her breath away, and began to fish on her own account. She was dextrous and artful, with the light hand and the hunter’s instinct which are indispensable. ”

“ During the night these Baboons hide together in holes in the rocks, whence, on the return of the morning sun, they emerge and sit warming themselves, before starting on their marauding expeditions in the cultivated fields, or in the vegetation which clothes the sides of the deep valleys, where they feed largely on the leaves of the trees. Their disposition is, among themselves, harmless. ”

“ The Baudas resemble our long-legged gnats, although their proboscis, with which they bore through a triple fold of strong linen, appears to me longer. Their head is blue; the back dun-coloured, and their legs are covered with white [165] specks, like small pearls. Another kind has shorter and stronger legs, a thicker body, of a brown-colour, with a red head and iris-hued posteriors.
The crew are quite wearied from sleepless nights, and rowing must be given up if the calm continues, although we find ourselves in a canal whose water propels us so little that we do not cast anchor. ”

“ From Baiomys musculus grisescens (paratypes, from Comayabuela, to the south, B. m. handleyi differs in: buff-colored hairs in dorsal and ventral region lacking; fore- and hind-feet white, not flesh-colored with gray overtones; tail bicolored, not unicolored; face paler, lacking buff-brown coloration; anterior tips of nasals squared rather than flaring; tail and upper molar tooth-row significantly longer (see Table 1) ; hind foot, ear from notch, and rostrum longer; braincase averaging broader (see Table 2) . ”

“ Some years later, Bauhin published a descriptive catalogue of the fossils he had collected in the neighborhood of Boll, in Wurtemberg. [3]
Andrew Mattioli, a distinguished botanist, adopted Agricola's notion as to the origin of organized fossils, but admitted that shells and bones might be turned into stone by being permeated by a "lapidifying juice." Falloppio, the eminent professor of anatomy at Padua, believed that fossil shells were generated by fermentation where they were found; and that the tusks of elephants, dug up near Apulia, were merely earthy concretions. ”

“ Gerard could read into the halting sentences all that Baumann was not the man to say.
“Well?” he asked, curtly. “What of Paul?”
Paul, very disappointed, had mounted his horse again and ridden off to the Bab Segma on his way to the camp at Dar-Debibagh.
“But he never reached the camp. He has not been seen since. We are all very much afraid.”
It was quite clear that Baumann had no hope at all that Paul Ravenel would ever be seen again.
“Most of our people scattered through Fez have been accounted for,” he added. “Many were rescued and brought here to safety. ”

“ There is only slight individual variation, slight variation with age, and no secondary sexual variation. In Baiomys taylori the orbicular apophysis of the malleus (see Figure 8, A) is rounded to nearly ovoid; the anterior process is pointed, and the neck is short, being slightly recurved. The body of the incus is round and the short process is elongate. The sides of the long limb of the incus are nearly parallel. The lenticular process is relatively large. The posterior and anterior crus of the stapes are bowed, and the muscular process is either absent or much reduced. ”

“ Dr. Baumgartner pottered about his untidy little garden, a sun-trap again as Pocket had seen it first; the Turk’s head perspired from internal and external heat, but its rich yellow, shading into richer auburn, clashed rather with a red geranium which the doctor wore jauntily in the button-hole of his black alpaca jacket.
It was Phillida who had given him the flower at breakfast. She grew what she could in the neglected garden; the plants in the miniature conservatory were also hers, though the doctor took a perfunctory interest in them, obviously on her account. ”

“ The spirit Bayon steals a beautiful girl and carries her to the sky, where he changes her breasts into one and marries her. She drops her rice pounder to the earth, and thus her people learn of her fate. ”

“ Adults of this species are active in both the late rainy season and transition to the dry season in lowland rain forest. They occur particularly in wet leaf litter in “aguajales,” i.e., palm forests (Mauritia flexuosa L. f.) that are present along major waterways throughout the Amazon Basin and along river and stream margins and in open marshes.
Other specimens examined.
Brazil, Pará, Belém, 5m, 1.46°S, 48.42°W, 8 October 1978, (G.E. Ball, K.E. Ball) (UASM: ADP132557, female) , Santarém, Río Tapajos, 2.4079°S, 54.7969°W, 30m, no date, (CMNH: ADP133571. male) . ”

“ The following account of the Bajang is by Sir Frank Swettenham:—
“Some one in the village falls ill of a complaint the symptoms of which are unusual; there may be convulsions, unconsciousness, or delirium, possibly for some days together or with intervals between the attacks. The relatives will call in a native doctor, and at her (she is usually an ancient female) suggestion, or without it, an impression will arise that the patient is the victim of a bâjang. Such an impression quickly develops into certainty, and any trifle will suggest the owner of the evil spirit. ”

“ The Baigas are usually without blankets or warm clothing, and in the cold season they sleep round a wood fire kept burning or smouldering all night, stray sparks from which may alight on their tough skins without being felt. ”

“ There are no thralls now to do your work."
"What shall I do, what shall I do?" said Baugi the Giant. "My fields will not be mown now, and I shall have no hay to feed my cattle and my horses in the winter."
"I might work for you," said the Wanderer.
"One man's work is no use to me," said the Giant, "I must have the work of nine men." [Pg 95]
"I shall do the work of nine men," said the Wanderer, "give me a trial, and see."
The next day Vegtam the Wanderer went into Baugi's field. He did as much work as the nine thralls had done in a day. ”