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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... leaves some 400 square miles of snow - field unaccounted for ) is that of Gunn- laugsson before mentioned ; a map which does infinite credit both to its author as an individual , to Iceland , and to Denmark . The same map , on a smaller ...
... leaves some 400 square miles of snow - field unaccounted for ) is that of Gunn- laugsson before mentioned ; a map which does infinite credit both to its author as an individual , to Iceland , and to Denmark . The same map , on a smaller ...
Page 84
... leaf buds only . And the entire explanation is closed by an appeal to what is indeed a beautiful provision in the economy of nature , viz . , that when the life of the individual is in danger , an effort is made to develop the ...
... leaf buds only . And the entire explanation is closed by an appeal to what is indeed a beautiful provision in the economy of nature , viz . , that when the life of the individual is in danger , an effort is made to develop the ...
Page 86
... leaf - bud is an indefinite branch - bud ) , are so modified as to bring the branches to a close ; for such is the undoubted function of flower - buds . In other words , the formation of flower - buds instead of leaf - buds , in the ...
... leaf - bud is an indefinite branch - bud ) , are so modified as to bring the branches to a close ; for such is the undoubted function of flower - buds . In other words , the formation of flower - buds instead of leaf - buds , in the ...
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... leaves as their product , stamp them as a special appara- tus of great interest and importance . They may , at all events , be described in such terms as the following : -Spongioles are productions of the lower extremity of a plant ...
... leaves as their product , stamp them as a special appara- tus of great interest and importance . They may , at all events , be described in such terms as the following : -Spongioles are productions of the lower extremity of a plant ...
Page 93
... leaves like true buds , so also do spongioles , as shown in the experiments of Duhamel , and as happens sometimes in the course of nature . But the theory that the ovule is merely a bud is quite inadequate . Buds are not naked ...
... leaves like true buds , so also do spongioles , as shown in the experiments of Duhamel , and as happens sometimes in the course of nature . But the theory that the ovule is merely a bud is quite inadequate . Buds are not naked ...
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