The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 57
... tropical America ; but none of them frequented the flowers of the scarlet runner , and to that circumstance we may safely ascribe its sterility . An analogous case has been long known . The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been ...
... tropical America ; but none of them frequented the flowers of the scarlet runner , and to that circumstance we may safely ascribe its sterility . An analogous case has been long known . The vanilla plant ( Vanilla planifolia ) has been ...
Page 63
... tropical America , and it has been too readily supposed that their attacks cannot be warded off . I myself was enabled , by using some of the means mentioned above , to cultivate successfully trees and vegetables of which the ants were ...
... tropical America , and it has been too readily supposed that their attacks cannot be warded off . I myself was enabled , by using some of the means mentioned above , to cultivate successfully trees and vegetables of which the ants were ...
Page 205
... tropical American genera of animals and plants , when a great part of the tropics was covered with ice , and the ... America , containing many distinct genera which , on any theory of descent from a common progenitor , must have originated ...
... tropical American genera of animals and plants , when a great part of the tropics was covered with ice , and the ... America , containing many distinct genera which , on any theory of descent from a common progenitor , must have originated ...
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amongst ancient animals ants Atlantic attacks beautiful beetles birds branches bushes butterflies carried cattle Central America Chontales colour continued couvade covered crossed dark Depilto Ecitons feet flowers forest fresh-water fruit glacial period gold grass green Greytown ground hills humming-birds Indians inhabitants insects islands Jinotega journey Juigalpa lake land larvæ leaf leaf-cutting ants leaves Libertad live lodes longicorn look maize Masaya Matagalpa Mexico miles mines mountain mules Nahuatls natives nearly nest Nicaragua night numerous o'clock Ocotal passed plains plants prey probably quartz quartz veins rain range reached resemblance Rio Frio river road rocks rocky San Ubaldo Santo Domingo savannahs seen side slope soon Spaniards species spiders steep stones surface Teustepe told Totagalpa town trachyte travelling trees tropical America valley variety vegetation Velasquez wasps whilst wings yellow young