acuminatus

Eucalyptus sideroxylon, 339. — — * acuminatus, HOOK.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

It chanced that I saw no asters in bloom along the road for fifty miles, though they were so abundant then in Massachusetts, -- except in one place one or two of the aster acuminatus, -- and no golden-rods till within twenty miles of Monson, where I saw a three-ribbed one.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

It bears resemblance at times to keratosis pilaris, ichthyosis, dermatitis exfoliativa; it is considered identical with the lichen ruber acuminatus of Kaposi, and by many also with the lichen ruber of Hebra.

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886

Of these, the last of July, 1857, only the Aster acuminatus and great round-leaved orchis were conspicuously in bloom.

The Maine Woods 1858

It chanced that I saw no asters in bloom along the road for fifty miles, though they were so abundant then in Massachusetts, -- except in one place one or two of the Aster acuminatus, -- and no golden-rods till within twenty miles of Monson, where I saw a three-ribbed one.

The Maine Woods 1858

Aster acuminatus, which with us grows in damp and shady woods.

The Maine Woods 1858

Aster acuminatus (pointed-leaved aster), the prevailing aster in woods, not long open on South Branch July 31st; two or more feet high.

The Maine Woods 1858

But in all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusanus acuminatus is common and produces the quandang nut (or kernel) in such abundance that it and gum acacia may in time become articles of commerce in Australia.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

In the scrub adjoining our camp we found a new and remarkably beautiful shrub bearing a fruit, the stone of which was very similar to that of the quandang (Fusanus acuminatus) although there was no resemblance either in the form of the tree or of the flower.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Your beautiful beetle is a Red Headed Ash Borer, Neoclytus acuminatus.

What's That Bug? online 2010