The Sagacity & Morality of Plants: A Sketch of the Life & Conduct of the Vegetable KingdomChatto and Windus, 1884 - 311 pages |
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... adopted opinion been proved , or do we accept it as a tradi- tional conclusion which to most people seems self- evident ? Wordsworth did not think so . He said- " It is my faith that every flower which blows Enjoys the air it breathes ...
... adopted opinion been proved , or do we accept it as a tradi- tional conclusion which to most people seems self- evident ? Wordsworth did not think so . He said- " It is my faith that every flower which blows Enjoys the air it breathes ...
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... adopting this habit or that device -always and only when such habits and devices . are beneficial to them - as if they did it of set and intelligent purpose . The works of Darwin , Lubbock , Müller , Wallace , Kerner , Grant Allen ...
... adopting this habit or that device -always and only when such habits and devices . are beneficial to them - as if they did it of set and intelligent purpose . The works of Darwin , Lubbock , Müller , Wallace , Kerner , Grant Allen ...
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... adopting devices to gain a livelihood as well as to escape enemies . Such an adaptation on the part of plants to their environment has been going on through all those periods of geological time that have passed away since vegetable life ...
... adopting devices to gain a livelihood as well as to escape enemies . Such an adaptation on the part of plants to their environment has been going on through all those periods of geological time that have passed away since vegetable life ...
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... adopted by the higher plants to grow , escape enemies , and pro- pagate their kind . The giants of the forest have won in the battle of life by sheer strength and bulk . Their huge trunks lift the branches on high , and enable the ...
... adopted by the higher plants to grow , escape enemies , and pro- pagate their kind . The giants of the forest have won in the battle of life by sheer strength and bulk . Their huge trunks lift the branches on high , and enable the ...
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... adopted by them increases . The mere statement of this fact carries with it to the mind of the botanist the know- ledge that such successful climbing habits have been acquired . The devices thus developed undoubtedly partake of the ...
... adopted by them increases . The mere statement of this fact carries with it to the mind of the botanist the know- ledge that such successful climbing habits have been acquired . The devices thus developed undoubtedly partake of the ...
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A. B. GROSART abundant adapted adopted animals ants Arctic attractive birds botanical botanist bracts British buds bulb carbonic acid carpels cells CHARLES climbing cloth extra cloth gilt cloth limp cluster colour common cover Crown 8vo Demy 8vo developed devices Dodder Drosera Edited Fcap Ferns fertilised flies floral organs flowering plants flowers Fly-trap forest Frontispiece fruits Garden genus geological Grant Allen Grasses green grow habit hairs HENRY Illus illustrated boards individual insects kinds Lathyrus nissolia latter leaf leaf-buds leaves living Mistletoe natural Novels numerous Illustrations Orchids order of plants Original parasites perhaps petals PICCADILLY NOVELS pistils pitcher Poems poisonous pollen pollen-grains Portrait possess Post 8vo produced protect remarkable roots secretion seeds shrubs soil specialised species Square 8vo stamens stem stomata Stories structure succulent Sundew surface tendrils THOMAS Three Vols tion tissues trated boards trations trees tropical usually vegetable kingdom whilst wild wind-fertilised woody
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