It is really less prickly than the last species, but is equally tall, and flowers during the same months.
The pistillate flowers are grouped in little clusters of from two to four, each one having three stigmas, and being surrounded by a four-lobed prickly cupule which afterwards forms a closed case.
They are prickly beneath, and the two leaves of each pair are united at their bases in such a manner that they form hollows in which the rain-water collects.
Its stem is stiff, hollow, slightly branched, and thickly covered with very pricklywings that are continuous with the margins of leaves above them.
The receptacle is flat, with membranous scales between the florets; and the fruits are crowned by from two to five stiff, prickly bristles.
The plant is a stout one, varying from about one to five feet in height, with a winged, prickly stem.
They bloom during June and July, and are followed later by little prickly fruits about a sixth of an inch long.
The stem is not winged, but the prickly leaves clasp it, and sometimes extend a little way down at their bases.
The leaves are very deeply divided pinnately, very prickly, and extend down the stem in the form of narrow, prickly wings.
It is an acrid, glaucous, leafy and prickly plant, with a milky juice.
The leaves are narrow, wavy, deeply divided into prickly lobes, with scattered hairs on both surfaces; the lower ones often seven or eight inches long; and the upper much smaller and narrower.
The flower-heads are ovoid, surrounded by an involucre of many closely-overlapping bracts with prickly tips.
The ragged prickly gorse and huge boulders, which bestrewed the pass about the foot of the cross, furnished unusual hiding places.
The men squatted among the boulders in the ragged prickly gorse.
Noiselessly the gendarmes halted, dismounted, quickly hobbled their horses with the long reins, and crept stealthily forward between the boulders and the ragged prickly shrubbery.
I am courteous towards them, as towards all small annoyances; to be prickly towards what is small, seemeth to me wisdom for hedgehogs.
Nor, although it be only a minor annoyance, must the pain and inconvenience felt by wanderers in the bush from the prickly grass, which is found abundantly in the sandy districts, be forgotten.
In those barren sands, where no grass grows, there are frequently tufts of a prickly bush, which tortures the horses, and tears to pieces the clothes of the men about their ankles, if they are walking.
This dwarf tree, and the prickly grass together, occupy the ground, and seem intended to bind down the sands of Australia.
At Hong-Kong many of the men, including myself, had suffered much from prickly heat, which had developed in many cases into huge heat boils.
Any one who is fond of the prickly fig should go to Catanzaro.
He had cut down a wagon load of prickly trees, and wanted to get all this mass of noli me tangere on to that wretched little cart, but had not rope enough to keep it together.
He raised a rampart of these prickly trees, a rampart three feet wide and eight feet high; but it only went round two sides and a half of the bower.
He worked very hard all day, and brought twelve of these prickly trees to the bower by sunset.
It bore a number of red flowers, each growing out of a fruit like a prickly pear.
Stout horizontal bars were let into the trees, and, being bound to the uprights, they mutually supported each other; smaller horizontal bars at intervals kept the prickly ramparts from being driven in by a sudden gust.
You have no idea how cold it was--the kind of cold that makes you feel small and prickly inside your clothes, and makes you wish you had twenty times as many clothes to feel small and prickly inside of.
When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also due to the cause mentioned.
Among the Mexican cliff-dwellers, 'woman's rights' seem to have been as indigenous to the soil as the pinon and the prickly pear.
But what,' said Fritz, `is the use of all these other prickly plants, except to annoy one?
My first care, therefore, was to plant a thick prickly hedge, capable of protecting us from any wild animal, and forming a tolerable obstacle to the attack of even savages, should they appear.
But now, shall we leave this prickly booty of yours, or attempt to take it with us?
Trees or shrubs, often with prickly spines for stipules.
Leaves sessile, sinuate-lobed, and with prickly teeth, often blotched with white.
Coarse, branching annuals, or biennials, with the stems winged by the decurrent base of the lobed and toothed somewhat prickly leaves.
Chiefly perennials, with coriaceous, toothed, cut, or prickly leaves, and blue or white bracted flowers closely sessile in dense heads.
Fruit ovate, dry and indehiscent, filled by the single seed, covered with barbedprickly bristles which are readily detached.
Annuals or biennials, with prickly bristles and yellow juice.
Fruit not flattened either way or but slightly, neither pricklynor scaly.
Stems mostly bearing thorns at the base of the leafstalks or clusters of leaves, and often with scattered bristly prickles; berries prickly or smooth.
Fruit, or collective drupes, not separating from the juicy prolonged receptacle, mostly ovate or oblong, blackish; stems prickly and flowers white.
She was totally unaccustomed to such an atmosphere as that which prevailed in this room, and began to be the victim of an odd, prickly sensation, which she believed to be physical, but which was certainly more than half moral.
And holly everywhere, with its prickly leaves and shining, phlegmatic surfaces.
A prickly sensation ran over her body as she cleared her throat and said, monosyllabically: "No.
There was a surge of blood through his brain and a prickly heat behind his eyeballs.
The prickly sensation increased, but she considered it now as a thing to be jumped on.
Illustration: He took the lead for good old Rome 235] Well, you'd a died to see dad get up out of that prickly cactus and take the lead for good old Rome.
Gwyn, who felt that his dog was safe; and he ran to the end of the bank of prickly growth, where there was an opening, and suddenly appeared upon the scene.
The salmon-berry also is very plentiful, growing in denseprickly tangles.
Others, standing as erect as bushes and trees or tall branchless pillars crowned with magnificent flowers, their prickly armor sparkling, look boldly abroad over the glaring desert, making the strangest forests ever seen or dreamed of.
Here, wonderful to behold, are a few green stems ofprickly rubus, and a tiny grass.
The caper is a small prickly shrub, cultivated in Spain, Italy, and the southern provinces of France.
They are compressed or flat, irregularly pointed, generally prickly and hard; brown when ripe.
In former days "red prickly fish," was the most highly-prized on the Chinese markets, but several years ago a fisherman in the neighbourhood of Cooktown used a copper boiler.
Botanists describe it as a prickly climbing palm, and no jungle is complete without it.
And there were no contortions about this prickly foe, only an impassable front, or, if you love exactness, back.
Having ignored this possibility, they had to climb, incidentally displacing, but carefully replacing, a number of prickly furze branches which the zeal of the Marchesa's bailiff had arranged along the top rail of the gate.
Lynborough edged near to the barricaded gate--a new padlock and new chevaux-de-frise of prickly branches guarded it.
It may be that," said Stillford, smiling as he arranged the pricklydefenses to the best advantage.
He stretched his arm out and drew her after him up the ascent that was slippery from drought and prickly from the stunted growth of furze.
A league onward the fields were merged into a heath, uncultivated and covered with short prickly furze; on the brown earth between the stunted bushes a few goats were cropping the burnt-up grasses.
She missed the red forests and the leaping torrents, and the prickly fruits, and the smell of the violets and the vineyards, and the wild shapes of the cactus, and the old myrtles that were hoary and contorted with age.
Braun's Holly Fern is one of the numerous varieties of the Prickly Shield Fern or A.
