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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... wood or decaying leaves , but in any case it must be organic . None of them contain chlorophyll , and hence have not the power to assimilate food from the inorganic substances of the earth , or the impalpable forces of the light and air ...
... wood or decaying leaves , but in any case it must be organic . None of them contain chlorophyll , and hence have not the power to assimilate food from the inorganic substances of the earth , or the impalpable forces of the light and air ...
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... woods in the sheltered vale of Pengreep . A small rivulet ran along the lower side , making ragwort , hemp agrimony , flea - bane , and clover grow in rich patches . For two interesting hours I walked along this border , netting the ...
... woods in the sheltered vale of Pengreep . A small rivulet ran along the lower side , making ragwort , hemp agrimony , flea - bane , and clover grow in rich patches . For two interesting hours I walked along this border , netting the ...
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... wood , and in many other places , but even though flax be not cultivated in the neighbourhood , there are several ways in which it might have occurred . Melilotus alba suddenly appeared one year in a brick - yard near Kibworth , in ...
... wood , and in many other places , but even though flax be not cultivated in the neighbourhood , there are several ways in which it might have occurred . Melilotus alba suddenly appeared one year in a brick - yard near Kibworth , in ...
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... wood at East Finchley , apparently indigenous ; Saponaria vaccaria , Crouch End ; Impatiens parviflora , Hampstead , probably brought with greenhouse refuse ; Melilotus officinalis , L. , and M. alba , Lam . , Crouch End ; Potentilla ...
... wood at East Finchley , apparently indigenous ; Saponaria vaccaria , Crouch End ; Impatiens parviflora , Hampstead , probably brought with greenhouse refuse ; Melilotus officinalis , L. , and M. alba , Lam . , Crouch End ; Potentilla ...
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... wood engravings . Wanted , the rarer British land and freshwater shells , or foreign shells . - F . W. Wotton , Mount Stuart , Rothesay . SCIENCE - GOSSIP wanted for 1869-74 , and also for 1878 , 1880 , 1883 , and 1884 ; must be clean ...
... wood engravings . Wanted , the rarer British land and freshwater shells , or foreign shells . - F . W. Wotton , Mount Stuart , Rothesay . SCIENCE - GOSSIP wanted for 1869-74 , and also for 1878 , 1880 , 1883 , and 1884 ; must be clean ...
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