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Eupatorium cannabinum, commonly known as hemp-agrimony, [2] or holy rope, [3] is a herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae.It is a robust perennial native to Europe, NW. . Africa, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, the Caucasus and Centra
Eels, snakes, and fish use their skin like an external tendon to generate the propulsive forces need for undulatory locomotion. Vertebrates that fly, glide, and parachute also have a characteristic fiber arrangements of their flight membranes that allows for the skin to maintain its structural integrity during the stress and strain experienced ...
Cutaneous respiration, or cutaneous gas exchange (sometimes called skin breathing), [1] is a form of respiration in which gas exchange occurs across the skin or outer integument of an organism rather than gills or lungs. Cutaneous respiration may be the sole method of gas exchange, or may accompany other forms, such as ventilation.
For larger lines, such as the natural (e.g. hemp) fiber rigging used on early vessels, "sister worming" could be built up from several different sizes of "small stuff", as was needed to fill in the typically larger cuntlines of cable-laid hemp rope. [1] In the days of hemp anchor cable, worming of chain was used, when anchoring on a rocky ...
Sida rhombifolia, commonly known as arrowleaf sida, [1] is a perennial or sometimes annual plant in the Family Malvaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.Other common names include rhombus-leaved sida, Paddy's lucerne, jelly leaf, and also somewhat confusingly as Cuban jute, [2] Queensland-hemp, [3] and Indian hemp (although S. rhombifolia is not closely related to either jute ...
Oakum and tools for caulking Hemp Prisoners picking oakum at Coldbath Fields Prison in London. Oakum is a preparation of tarred fibers used to seal gaps. Its traditional application was in shipbuilding for caulking or packing the joints of timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships. [1]
He makes a series of holes, very shallow, in the burned soil about 8 feet (2.4 m) apart in each direction, and places a bud or cutting of a henequen plant in each hole. Each mecate can support 80 to 100 plants. The holes are typically made with a digging stick with a sharp iron point, and are frequently dug directly into the soft, friable ...
Brachyurophis fasciolatus is a species of snake from the family Elapidae, commonly named the narrow-banded shovel-nosed snake, or narrow-banded burrowing snake, and is a species endemic to Australia. [2] Its common names reflect its shovel nose specialization, burrowing behaviour and banded body colour. [3]