 | John Aikin - 1819 - 500 页
...It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of Viscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | John Aikin - 1823 - 168 页
...It bears a very slimy white berry, of which bird-lime may be made, whence its Latin name of Viscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 164 页
...incantations. It bears a very slimy white berry, of which bird lime may be made, whence the Latin word viscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground, by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 页
...incantations. It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence the Latin word vi-icus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground, by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been to'mor-ous-ly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 182 页
...It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence the Latin name •aiscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 178 页
...incantations. It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence the Latin name viscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 页
...of great fame for the use made of it by the Druids of old in their religious rites and incantations. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been styled parasitical,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 290 页
...incantations. It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence the Latin name viscus. It is one of those plants, which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | John Aikin - 1839 - 308 页
...It bears a very slimy white berry, of which bird-lime may be made, whence its Latin name of Viscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 页
...incantations. It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, wnence the Latin name, t iscus. It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own. but fix themselves upon other plants ; whence they have been humorously styled... | |
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It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled parasitical, as being hangers-on, or dependents. 
