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Page 144
Rounded boggy hills covered with grass , sedgy plants , and stunted trees
replaced the dry gravelly soil of the Juigalpa district . The low trees bore
innumerable epiphytal plants on their trunks and boughs . Many of these are
species of ...
Rounded boggy hills covered with grass , sedgy plants , and stunted trees
replaced the dry gravelly soil of the Juigalpa district . The low trees bore
innumerable epiphytal plants on their trunks and boughs . Many of these are
species of ...
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 253
Alph . de Candolle has remarked that in large groups of plants which have many
terrestrial and only a few aquatic species the latter have a far wider distribution
than the former . It is well known to botanists that many fresh - water and marsh ...
Alph . de Candolle has remarked that in large groups of plants which have many
terrestrial and only a few aquatic species the latter have a far wider distribution
than the former . It is well known to botanists that many fresh - water and marsh ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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