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"Tenuis, in sicco." How literally the words apply, as to the native streams, so to the early states or establishings of the great cities of the world.
Flowers small, whitish, and much less ornamental than the berry-like fruits which succeed them, and which are egg-shaped, ½ in. long, and a deep rose-colour. M. tenuis is a variety of this, with almost white spines. Native of Mexico. Introduced 1835. May be cultivated under a bell-glass in a room window, the only danger being damp during winter, which must be carefully avoided.
Lindley when describing M. tenuis, give a good idea of the singular, yet pretty, stems of some of these plants: "Gentle reader, hast thou never seen in a display of fireworks a crowd of wheels all in motion at once, crossing and intersecting each other in every direction; and canst thou fancy those wheels arrested in their motion by some magic power their rays retained, but their fires extinguished and their brightness gone?
In the Indian Calotes nigrilabris there is a still greater difference; the lips also of the male are black, whilst those of the female are green. In the Proctotretus tenuis of Chile the male alone is marked with spots of blue, green, and coppery-red. For Proctotretus, see 'Zoology of the Voyage of the "Beagle"; Reptiles, by Mr. Bell, p. 8.
If a charm was wanted, as by Ovid’s Medea, to prolong life, all long-lived animals, or what were esteemed such, were collected and brewed into a broth: nec defuit illic Squamea Cinyphii tenuis membrana chelydri Vivacisque jecur cervi: quibus insuper addit Ora caputque novem cornicis sæcula passæ.
Paul's School and Milton's teacher, published his "Logonomia Anglica" in 1621, a book which throws more light on the contemporary pronunciation of English than any other we know of. He makes three forms of u: the tenuis, as in use, the crassa brevis, as in us, and the longa, as in ooze.
At liquidi fontes et stagna virentia musco Adsint, et tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus " And shall be surrounded with beds of violets and lavender and such blue flowers as bees especially love. When, Narcissus, I glance over the hedge at the back of the house and behold Captain Runacles' two acres lying waste, cumbered like a mining country with the ruins of his mechanical toys, I have a mind to "
Primary sexual organs. Primates, sexual differences of colour in. Primogeniture, evils of. Prionidae, difference of the sexes in colour. Proctotretus multimaculatus. Proctotretus tenuis, sexual difference in the colour of. Profligacy. Progenitors, early, of man. Progress, not the normal rule in human society; elements of. Prong-horn antelope, horns of.
Ch. xxxiii. section 10. F. Gaspar de Salazar. 3 Kings xix. 12: "Sibilus aurae tenuis." See St. Ch. xxxiv. section 1. St. John iii. 34: "Non enim ad mensuram dat Deus spiritum." See ch. xxxiii. section 15. St. Matt. xx. 9-14: "Volo autem et huic novissimo dare sicut et tibi." Ch. xiv. section 12.
For the Adige, representing among the rivers and fountains of waters the channel of Imperial, as the Tiber of the Papal power, and the strength of the Coronet being founded on the white peaks that look down upon Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, as that of the Scarlet Cap in the marsh of the Campagna, "quo tenuis in sicco aqua destituisset," the study of the policies and arts of the cities founded in the two great valleys of Lombardy and Tuscany, so far as they were affected by their bias to the Emperor, or the Church, will arrange itself in your minds at once in a symmetry as clear as it will be, in our future work, secure and suggestive.
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