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Page 57
The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been introduced from tropical America
into India , but though it grows well ... of the natural productions of one country on
the soil of some distant one , study the mutual relations of plants and animals ...
The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been introduced from tropical America
into India , but though it grows well ... of the natural productions of one country on
the soil of some distant one , study the mutual relations of plants and animals ...
Page 172
I am not sure , however , that this may not have been due to the habitat of the
plant not suiting it . ... in Brazil and Nicaragua I paid much attention to the relation
between the presence of honey - secreting glands on plants , and the protection
the ...
I am not sure , however , that this may not have been due to the habitat of the
plant not suiting it . ... in Brazil and Nicaragua I paid much attention to the relation
between the presence of honey - secreting glands on plants , and the protection
the ...
Page 174
If so , we have an instance of two insects and a plant living together , and all
benefiting by the companionship . ... Amongst the numerous plants that do not
provide houses , but attract ants to their leaves and flower - buds by means of ...
If so , we have an instance of two insects and a plant living together , and all
benefiting by the companionship . ... Amongst the numerous plants that do not
provide houses , but attract ants to their leaves and flower - buds by means of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library 561. number of Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Thys. Travel & topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Travel and topography |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1928 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 6 veeb. 2008 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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