Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... living thing , But bird and insect ever on the wing , Flitting ' mid forest glades and tangled bowers , While the life - giving orb's effulgent beams Through all the circling year call forth the flowers . Here graceful palms , here ...
... living thing , But bird and insect ever on the wing , Flitting ' mid forest glades and tangled bowers , While the life - giving orb's effulgent beams Through all the circling year call forth the flowers . Here graceful palms , here ...
Page xiii
... LIVING THINGs to their ENVIRONMENT . - The Influence of Locality on Colour in Butterflies and Birds - Sense - perception influenced by Colour of the Integuments- Relations of Insular Plants and Insects - RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN ...
... LIVING THINGs to their ENVIRONMENT . - The Influence of Locality on Colour in Butterflies and Birds - Sense - perception influenced by Colour of the Integuments- Relations of Insular Plants and Insects - RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN ...
Page 48
... Sometimes they form clusters of foliage on living or dead trees to which they cling by their aerial roots . Others climb up the smooth bark of large trees , sending out roots as they 48 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
... Sometimes they form clusters of foliage on living or dead trees to which they cling by their aerial roots . Others climb up the smooth bark of large trees , sending out roots as they 48 TROPICAL NATURE , AND OTHER ESSAYS .
Page 52
... living foliage . Such clumps are often eighty or a hundred feet high , the glossy stems , perhaps six inches thick at the base , spring- ing up at first straight as an arrow , tapering gradually to a slender point , and bending over in ...
... living foliage . Such clumps are often eighty or a hundred feet high , the glossy stems , perhaps six inches thick at the base , spring- ing up at first straight as an arrow , tapering gradually to a slender point , and bending over in ...
Page 61
... living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy flowers are so rare , that weeks and months may be passed without observing a single flowering plant worthy of special admiration ...
... living almost wholly in the forests , are quite in accordance with this view . Conspicuous masses of showy flowers are so rare , that weeks and months may be passed without observing a single flowering plant worthy of special admiration ...
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