Before the others rode a little cluster of pathfinders, and among them I thought I could recognize one taller than the rest.

The long, chalky-white stems, often rising to 8 feet in height, are surmounted by dense clusters of lemon-yellow flowers.

He was soon concealed from sight by a thick cluster of bamboos, beneath which he had often sheltered himself from the noontide sun.

The staminate cones are seen growing straight downward from the under side of the young branches in lavish profusion, making fine purple clusters amid the grayish-green foliage.

A handsome, fast-growing tree, with large pinnate leaves that are often fully three feet long, and terminal erect clusters of not very showy greenish-white flowers that exhale a rather disagreeable odour.

The flowers, which are borne in crowded clusters at the points of the shoots, are bell-shaped, and of a pleasing reddish-lilac colour.

It was a delightful spot, a mere cluster of human habitations, clinging to the mountain-side.

It holds the blood of sun and star, And all pure essences that are: No fruit so high on the heavenly vine, Whose golden hanging clusters shine On the far-off shadowy midnight hills, But some sweet influence it distils That slideth down the silvery rills.

They found also an archipelago, or numerous cluster of islands, in 15 or 16 degrees of north latitude, well inhabited by a white people, with beautiful well-proportioned women, and much better clothed than in any other of the islands of these parts; and they had many golden ornaments, which was a sure sign that there was some of that metal in their country.

Here, too, in the heart of the town, was a magnificent cluster of live-oaks, worth coming to Florida to see; far-spreading, full of ferns and air plants, and heavy with hanging moss.

A very ornamental, small-growing tree, with large deciduous leaves and pendent clusters of pure white flowers with long fringe-like petals, and from which the popular name has arisen.

After about six pairs are removed, we come, in the larger buds, to leaves with axillary flower-clusters.

A loose compound cluster of flowers or sporangia with irregular stems.

" Taking the two little osier baskets, laden with yellow and purple clusters, Casimer offered them, with a charming mixture of timidity and grace, to the girls, saying, like a grateful boy, "You give me kind words and good hopes; permit that I thank you in this poor way.

The great high buildings, whose towers overlooked the dense woodlands, and whose gigantic clusters formed large cities, diminished, together with the groves, until only little log cabins lay snugly in the bosom of the vast prairie.

' The next-ensuing passages come from the Elegy of Moschus for Bion: 'Ye flowers, now in sad clusters breathe yourselves away.

This is of much smaller growth than the following, rarely rising to a greater height than about half a foot, with lanceolate, serrated leaves, and pendulous axillary clusters of white flowers.

Sometimes the ensign of sovereignty has been an eagle, sometimes a winged lion,now a black raven, then a broom,to-day St. Andrew's Cross, to-morrow St George's, perhaps the next a starry cluster.

It is a miserable cluster of Arab huts, with not a building which appears to be more than a century old.

Those great, nodding, airy, fragrant clusters, tossing far above one's head their slender cups of honey, seem scarcely to belong to our sober zone, any more than the scarlet tanager which sometimes builds its nest beside them.

Take, for example, the immense cluster of difficulties that arises out of the increasing complexity of our state.

In 1825 he commenced a careful re-examination of the numerous nebulae and starry clusters which had been discovered by his father, and described in the "Philosophical Transactions," fixing their positions and investigating their aspects.

The principal were, Saturn and the Annular Nebula of Lyra with the 3-feet; Saturn, a remarkable cluster of stars, and a remarkable planetary nebula, with the 6-feet.

And suddenly one leaves the crowd and the turbid air for one of those quiet corners that are like the back-waters of the bazaars, a small square where a vine stretches across a shop-front and hangs ripe clusters of grapes through the reeds.

A bushy, free growing species, with broadly oval leaves, and large campanulate flowers, produced in compact, rounded clusters.