Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard.
The four to eight radials are cross-ridged and stout, one or two inches long.
All thorns are cross-ridged and a grayish pink with occasional bands of a deeper color.
They are not ridgedor fluted, but are covered with tubercles arranged spirally.
The ridges run lengthwise over the whole plant body, and are covered with a dense lacework of thorns which are often cross-ridged and of several kinds, forming in clusters, a network over the entire plant.
The spines form in a marginal fringe of white bristlelike inch-long hairs that are bent and twisted, four to eight radials and four centrals, two inches long or less, cross-ridged and light red and yellow at their bases.
All the central and radial spines are cross-ridged in mottled pink or light rose shadings, and have yellow tips.
All the thorns are quite stout, are strongly cross-ridged and curved, and in many instances are twisted.
Only an inch and a half tall in many cases, sometimes reaching the height of six inches, his stems are deeply ridged in spirals a half-inch or so apart, of a dull green or yellow-green and scurfy.
Often but two inches tall, sometimes reaching six or eight inches, this little Strawberry Cactus grows in clumps of two or three to ten stems which are densely ridged and tubercled.
In the genus Morchella the cap is deeply pitted and ridged so that it presents a honeycombed appearance.
The beds can be made on the floor, flat, ridged or banked against the wall, ten or twelve inches deep in a warm cellar, and from fifteen to twenty inches in a cool cellar.
The Osage orange (Toxylon pomiferum) is similar to the mulberry in the light, golden color of its bark, but differs from it in possessing conspicuous spines along the twigs and branches and a more ridged bark.
The bark is dark brown and deeply ridged and the fruit is the familiar round walnut.
The light-colored, smooth bark of the red oak and the dark, ridged bark of the black oak will distinguish the two, while the bark of the scarlet oak has an appearance intermediate between the two.
The skull is deeply ridged behind with the usual sagittal crest.
The skull in Man "is a smooth and imposing, rounded or oval bony case," which contrasts with the smaller and deeply ridged skull of the Anthropoid Apes.
The back teeth are brachyodont and ridged (lophodont).
These ridged fields, which we were to see so often afterwards in the west of Ireland, tell of a ground so soaked with moisture that it must be carefully and thoroughly drained before anything will grow in it.
To the north a boggy plain stretched away and away, ridged with black pits, like long earthworks, from which the turf had been cut.
For some small hint of the beauties to be shown later there is the roof of a temple, ridged and fluted with dark tiles, flung out casually beyond the corner of the bluff on which the garden stands.
For a moment he looked at me with eyes narrowed and his forehead ridged in tiny, perpendicular folds.
With eyes narrowed and his forehead ridged in tiny folds, Selwyn stared at me.
The extreme south is composed of parallel rows of long and narrow-ridged hills.
The old French-Normandy pendant cross and locket (l) presents a characteristic example of peasant jewelry; it is of branched open work set with bosses and ridged ornaments of crystal.
Ridged pillars that redden aloft and aloof, With never a branch for a nest, Sustain the sublime indivisible roof, To the storm and the sun in his majesty proof, And awful as waters at rest.
In the west the sky was already aflame, ridged tier above tier with burning clouds, while the blaze fainted zenithwards into gold and azure.
Her sails gleamed white against the tumultuous west, and the ridged waters hid her hull.
T is midnight,--street and square are still; Dark roll the whispering waves That lap the piers beneath the hill Ridged thick with ancient graves.
The streets are thronged with trampling feet, The northern hill is ridged with graves, But night and morn the drum is beat To frighten down the "rebel knaves.
Her forehead was ridgedand furrowed beneath her white turban, and her bleared old eyes looked up at him with a blind and groping effort at recognition.
Again I see the day decline Along a ridgedhorizon line; Touching the hill-tops, as a nun Her beaded rosary, sinks the sun.
By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat.
The yard is ridged with graves, and must have received the dust of many generations, "going back even to those who acknowledged the first James for their dread lord and sovereign.
Yet farther the snow summits of the Cascades ridged the western sky.
The sea beneath, stormily dancing, flashed back from all its crest the same red glow, shining like a ridged lava-torrent in its first combustion.
The gulf was ridged with foam-fleeced breakers, and the water churned into green, tawny wastes.
Higher, the roseate whiteness of ridged snow on Alps or Apennines.
We stand bareheaded to salute the grey mass of buildings ridged along the sky.
An early example may be seen upon the tomb of queen Eleanor at Westminster, which has the bends in the shields of Ponthieu ridged along the middle line.
Shields with ridged charges, from the monument of Guy lord Bryen (ob.
Shields with ridged charges, from the monument of Guy lord Bryen, ob.
Then one insulted mountain loosed an avalanche, and then another and another, until the incredible cones of fire were ridgedwith black.
His nose had a hook, high up, right between the eyes, and his lofty forehead, narrowing to a peak, was ridged like a ploughed field.
They rested on ridged earth, black against the cold, grey sky.
After the plants are ridged out, wash them every morning, on the outside, and about once a week in the inside, which will tend to reflect the light, and cause them to thrive much better.
After the plants have been ridged out a fortnight it will be necessary to shut them down in the afternoon, about an hour before they are covered up.
On the following day they may be ridged out, when the mould must be pressed with the hands close down round the roots of the plants; and water applied, which should be at the same time sprinkled regularly all over the bed.
On the following day they may be ridged out, and watered, being very particular in sprinkling the bed regularly over.
Put a pot of plants in the middle of a three-light box, and at night admit nearly two inches of air, covering them with a single mat; and if on the following day the plants look well, they may be safely ridged out.
By observing these directions, a good crop of fruit may be ensured, which will be ready to cut in about a month or five weeks after they have been ridged out.
The bed should be made three weeks or a month before the plants are put into it, and must be perfectly sweet before they are ridged out.
If the plants are not ridged out when three weeks old, plunge them up to the rim, until the fruiting frame is ready for their reception, which ought to be at the latest when they are a month or five weeks old.
In the west a copper glow, ridgedwith lead-colored clouds, marked where the sun had set.
We stand bare-headed to salute the grey mass of buildings ridged along the sky.
He walked a mile beside Ocean-Sea, then sat down beneath ridged sand with the wind singing over.
We succeeded by great skill and with Providence over us, for we met as it were an under wall of water ridged atop with strong waves.
