Plant-life: Popular Papers on the Phenomena of BotanyM. Japp, 1881 - 216 страница |
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... beautiful form of similar construction . This is the Volvox globator , a species . that once puzzled scientific men considerably , to assign the department of nature to which it be- longed . Some considered it was an animalcule , others ...
... beautiful form of similar construction . This is the Volvox globator , a species . that once puzzled scientific men considerably , to assign the department of nature to which it be- longed . Some considered it was an animalcule , others ...
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... beautiful forms will be found among the Diatoms and Desmids . A few of these will be seen in figs . 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , and 13. Fig . 7 is that of a desmid ( Cosmarium ) in the act of divi- * See " Science Gossip , " 1879 , pp ...
... beautiful forms will be found among the Diatoms and Desmids . A few of these will be seen in figs . 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , and 13. Fig . 7 is that of a desmid ( Cosmarium ) in the act of divi- * See " Science Gossip , " 1879 , pp ...
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... beautiful forms of higher plant life . As we have seen , the lowest forms of plants are unicellular , but from these to the complex organisation of the forest trees there is a very gradual advance . In the same group as Protococcus ...
... beautiful forms of higher plant life . As we have seen , the lowest forms of plants are unicellular , but from these to the complex organisation of the forest trees there is a very gradual advance . In the same group as Protococcus ...
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... beautiful in form and colour , but the recent investigations of scientific men should dissipate so presumptuous a theory . Man cer- tainly does - unless his nature be very depraved— derive very great pleasure from the presence of ...
... beautiful in form and colour , but the recent investigations of scientific men should dissipate so presumptuous a theory . Man cer- tainly does - unless his nature be very depraved— derive very great pleasure from the presence of ...
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... beautiful in appearance may be a flower , we shall find on closer acquaintance that its beauty is not merely to gratify our sense of the beautiful , but to serve a useful purpose in the economy of Nature , and with special reference to ...
... beautiful in appearance may be a flower , we shall find on closer acquaintance that its beauty is not merely to gratify our sense of the beautiful , but to serve a useful purpose in the economy of Nature , and with special reference to ...
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acid gas Algæ animal antheridia antherozoids anthers archegonia bear beautiful bees birds branches called carbonic cell-wall cellulose Chapter Chara chlorophyll cilia Club-moss colour conidia consists containing corolla delicate Desmids Diatoms Ecidium elaters Equisetum sylvaticum feet fernery ferns fertilisation filaments flowers fluid fronds fruit Fucus fungi germinate Gibside green grow growth heath herb honey hypha hyphæ Illustrations inches insects Isoëtes JAPP AND COMPANY'S known labellum large number leaf leaves Lichens MARSHALL JAPP microscope moisture mosses mould Mucor mycelium number of cells Orchis oxygen Penicillium petals pistil pitcher pitcher-plant plants pollen pollen grains pollinia ponds Potato fungus produced prothallus Protococcus protoplasm Puccinia readers remarkable resemblance roots round says Scale-mosses seeds seen set free side species specimens sporange sporangia spores stalk stamens starch stem stigma substance surface threads tion Torula trees tube vegetable whilst wood zoospores
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Страница 147 - Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 148 - Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slowpencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery.
Страница 148 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone.
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Страница 125 - ... heath-plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and carices) flourished in the plantations, which could not be found on the heath. The effect on the insects must have been still greater, for six insectivorous birds were very common in the plantations, which were not to be seen on the heath ; and the heath was frequented by two or three distinct insectivorous birds.
Страница 86 - When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower, or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its comrades into the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the flower is fertilised.
Страница 122 - If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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