It seems to me that this idea of the manufacture of indigo being especially inimical to human life, is as unfounded as the belief, even by Humboldt, up to a very recent period, that none of the Cerealia would grow in tropical climates.
The Indians find in this a compensation for the rice and other cerealia of the Old World.
The juice of grapes is especially rich in this constituent, but it is most abundant in the seeds of wheat, and of the cerealia generally.
The phosphoric acid of the phosphate of lime, indispensable to the cerealia and other vegetables in the formation of their seeds, is separated as an excrement, in great quantities, by the rind and barks of ligneous plants.
All plants cultivated as food require for their healthy sustenance the alkalies and alkaline earths, each in a certain proportion; and in addition to these, the cerealia do not succeed in a soil destitute of silica in a soluble condition.
Surely the cerealia and leguminous plants which we cultivate must derive their carbon and nitrogen from the same source whence the graminea and leguminous plants of the meadows obtain them!
The cerealia require the alkalies and alkaline silicates, which the action of the lime renders fit for assimilation by the plants.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cerealia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
