The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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Page 83
... axis , the fructification is always terminal , so that , morpho- logically viewed , the fully developed plant presents its axis to us as terminated by the ugly root at one extremity , or pole , and by the beautiful inflorescence at the ...
... axis , the fructification is always terminal , so that , morpho- logically viewed , the fully developed plant presents its axis to us as terminated by the ugly root at one extremity , or pole , and by the beautiful inflorescence at the ...
Page 87
... axis , the fructification is the last and the uppermost part to appear on that axis , because the grand law of symmetry requires that it should be so . And here it is necessary for us to make some remarks upon the properties of natural axes ...
... axis , the fructification is the last and the uppermost part to appear on that axis , because the grand law of symmetry requires that it should be so . And here it is necessary for us to make some remarks upon the properties of natural axes ...
Page 88
... axis , can seldom be reached . And when , as in the case of plants , the axis is slowly developed by the accretion of fluid particles under very dissimilar conditions of existence at the two poles , per- fect similarity in both poles is ...
... axis , can seldom be reached . And when , as in the case of plants , the axis is slowly developed by the accretion of fluid particles under very dissimilar conditions of existence at the two poles , per- fect similarity in both poles is ...
Page 89
... axis was resolved into a sphere ) . With regard to the plant - axis , its construction receives but little illustration from the apparatus which has been imagined , and which is indeed very rude and vague for any purpose . Though the ...
... axis was resolved into a sphere ) . With regard to the plant - axis , its construction receives but little illustration from the apparatus which has been imagined , and which is indeed very rude and vague for any purpose . Though the ...
Page 90
... minate beneath . With regard to the form of the root , or ter- rene pole of the plant axis , it displays , as might be expected , a very defective symmetry , partly because it is developed 90 Dr Macvicar on the Theory of.
... minate beneath . With regard to the form of the root , or ter- rene pole of the plant axis , it displays , as might be expected , a very defective symmetry , partly because it is developed 90 Dr Macvicar on the Theory of.
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