White lances

Composition for lances. Yellow saltpeter 16 parts, meal powder 16, sulfur 4, amber 4, and colophony 3 parts. Rose saltpeter 16 parts, lampblack 1, meal powder 3. White saltpeter 16 parts, sulfur 8, meal powder 4. Blue saltpeter 16 parts, antimony (sulfide) 8, very fine zinc filings 4. Green saltpeter 16 parts, sulfur 6, verdigris 16, and antimony (sulfide) 6 parts. 

Features This familiar evergreen is a true parasite, receiving no nourishment from the soil, nor even from the decaying bark. The leaves are obtuse lance-shaped, broader towards the end, sessile, and grow from a smooth-jointed stem about a foot high. The flower-heads are yellowish and the berries white. The plant is tasteless and without odour. 

Compositions for Lances. White.-l. Niter, 16 parts sulphur. 8 parts meal powder, 6 parts. 

The name "saw" palmetto comes from the sharp-edged fan-shaped leaves. The bladelike serrated edges create nearly impenetrable thickets. The leaves are palmate (fan-shaped) and are divided into 18 to 24 lance-shaped leaflets. The leaves range in color from blue-green to yellow-green to an almost silvery white. The aromatic flowers are an ivory-white color and are found in large clusters. May through July. 

A streak of white fire lanced down from one of Moyce s upper windows. The threat response program in Ralph s neural nanonics bullied his leg muscles with nerve impulse overrides. He was flinging himself aside before his conscious mind had registered the attack. 

Common comfrey (5. officinale) is an erect, stout, often branched perennial, to 1 m leaves broadly lance shaped middle and upper ones sessile, but at point of insertion extend downward on stalk stalk distinctly winged flowers variable from white or cream, yellowish to rose, pink, or light to dark violet anther about as wide as filament petal lobes recurved calyx segments distinctly lanceolate nutlets smooth occurs in moist grasslands and riv-erbanks most of Europe, is rare in extreme south, naturalized alien in northern Europe eastern North America. 

Shrubs native to the Mediterranean region. Cistus ladanifer is very sticky and fragrant, with white flowers and linear, lance-shaped leaves that are viscid above and densely white woolly beneath up to 3 m high. Parts used are the leaves and twigs. 

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J. Siegal-Willott, S. B. Citino, S. Wade, L. Elder, L. A Hayek and W. R. Lance, Butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine anesthesia in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) using radiotransmitter darts, J. Wildl. Dis., 2009, 45, 468 80. 

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