The cockscomb and the peloric fox-glove are widely known instances of permanent anomalies, and others will be dealt with in future lectures.
The common cockscomb or Celosia cristata, one of the oldest and most widely cultivated fasciated varieties may be used to illustrate the first point.
The cockscombor Celosia is one of the most notorious instances.
The cockscomb is the most widely known, but many white or double flowered varieties were already cultivated at that time.
Here's Rahere's name writ, and there's Rahere's red cockscomb sign drawn below for such as cannot read.
The border is composed of festoons decorated with cockscomb and sprays of flowers.
Bending south, the Groote river passes through the coast chain by Cockscomb mountain, and being joined by the Kouga, flows on as the Gamtoos to the sea at St Francis Bay.
Blanch ten nice sweetbreads, trim them well, cut a deep incision in the centre of each, in which stick a very finecockscomb (No.
Greenhouse annual== The conditions which suit a liberally grown Cockscomb will produce long graceful plumes of =Celosia plumosa=, but the starving system will not answer with this plant.
The ideal Cockscomb is a dwarf, well-furnished plant, with large, symmetrical, and intensely coloured combs.
The attractiveness of the cockscomb resides in the strange habit the plant has of broadening the upper end of the flower stalk out into a form that is truly monstrous.
Here's Rahere's name writ, and there's Rahere's red cockscomb mark drawn below for such as cannot read.
The crest "Crista," a cockscomb, was often of a fan or cockscomb shape on the top of a helmet, but gradually it assumed more distinguishing peculiarities.
The mineral is also met with in metalliferous veins, though much less frequently than pyrites; for example the "cockscomb pyrites" of the lead mines of Derbyshire and Cumberland.
Again this was to be simplified: the twist made into a smooth roll, the skull to be covered by an ordinary cap attached to the roll, the cockscomb converted into a plain piece of cloth or silk, the liripipe to become broader.
As the fig-leaf identifies Adam, so may the chaperon twisted into a cockscomb mark Richard II.
