Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 2. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1801 |
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... genus , may be predicated of every fpe- cies and of every individual comprehended under that genus . " This is indeed an undoubted truth ; but it cannot conftitute a foundation for reafoning from the genus to the fpecies or the ...
... genus , may be predicated of every fpe- cies and of every individual comprehended under that genus . " This is indeed an undoubted truth ; but it cannot conftitute a foundation for reafoning from the genus to the fpecies or the ...
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... genus of the oak ; and there is no reason to doubt that they mean coccum ilicis , and that low ever green oak , with the prickly leaves of the holly ( aquifolium ) , which is called at prefent in botany quercus ilex . This affer- tion ...
... genus of the oak ; and there is no reason to doubt that they mean coccum ilicis , and that low ever green oak , with the prickly leaves of the holly ( aquifolium ) , which is called at prefent in botany quercus ilex . This affer- tion ...
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... genus into the clafs Hemiptera of Linnæus . " Some pieces of very fresh - looking lac ( fays Mr Lacha . Roxburgh ) adhering to fmall branches of mimofa ci- nerea , were brought me from the mountains on the 20th of November 1789. I kept ...
... genus into the clafs Hemiptera of Linnæus . " Some pieces of very fresh - looking lac ( fays Mr Lacha . Roxburgh ) adhering to fmall branches of mimofa ci- nerea , were brought me from the mountains on the 20th of November 1789. I kept ...
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... genus of plants belong . ing to the diacia hexandria of Linnæus . It is a native of Chili , and is thus defcribed in Peroufe's Voyage , from drawings fent to France by La Martiniere . The leaves are alternate , on footftalks inflated at ...
... genus of plants belong . ing to the diacia hexandria of Linnæus . It is a native of Chili , and is thus defcribed in Peroufe's Voyage , from drawings fent to France by La Martiniere . The leaves are alternate , on footftalks inflated at ...
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... genus of plants , of which the most valuable fpecies feems to be the LICHEN ROCELLA , or Argol . As that fpecies has not been no- ticed in the article referred to , the following account of it from Profeffor Beckmann will be acceptable ...
... genus of plants , of which the most valuable fpecies feems to be the LICHEN ROCELLA , or Argol . As that fpecies has not been no- ticed in the article referred to , the following account of it from Profeffor Beckmann will be acceptable ...
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