Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... tree in a small clover - field down the valley , watching a great many of these swift fliers , gambolling with red admirals , peacocks , tortoise - shells , large , small , and green - veined whites . It was a sweltering day , and ...
... tree in a small clover - field down the valley , watching a great many of these swift fliers , gambolling with red admirals , peacocks , tortoise - shells , large , small , and green - veined whites . It was a sweltering day , and ...
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... tree this year bearing fruit and blossom at the same time . At Bramford , in September , I noticed a pear tree having several bunches of blossom , together with a fair quantity of rapidly - ripening fruit . A friend , too , has to - day ...
... tree this year bearing fruit and blossom at the same time . At Bramford , in September , I noticed a pear tree having several bunches of blossom , together with a fair quantity of rapidly - ripening fruit . A friend , too , has to - day ...
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... trees , with set¿ usually in eight rows . Lip very delicate , the insertion of which into the first ring may be very slight or very deep . They exude a small quantity of yellow fluid from the dorsal pores , which begin between the 5th ...
... trees , with set¿ usually in eight rows . Lip very delicate , the insertion of which into the first ring may be very slight or very deep . They exude a small quantity of yellow fluid from the dorsal pores , which begin between the 5th ...
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... tree - frog ( Polypedates ) from tropical Western Africa . This species deposits its eggs , as is usual among Batrachians , in a mass of albuminous jelly , but instead of placing this in the water , it attaches it to the leaves of trees ...
... tree - frog ( Polypedates ) from tropical Western Africa . This species deposits its eggs , as is usual among Batrachians , in a mass of albuminous jelly , but instead of placing this in the water , it attaches it to the leaves of trees ...
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... tree " a summer home of murmurous wings " are offered to its guests in the hollowed sepals of the flower . The functions of the curiously concealed spur of the Pelargonium are not equally clear , but it probably produces the honey that ...
... tree " a summer home of murmurous wings " are offered to its guests in the hollowed sepals of the flower . The functions of the curiously concealed spur of the Pelargonium are not equally clear , but it probably produces the honey that ...
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