The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 39
... vegetation seems to be characteristic of dry rocky places and tracts of country liable to great drought . Probably it is as a protection from herbivorous animals , to prevent them browsing upon the twigs and small branches where ...
... vegetation seems to be characteristic of dry rocky places and tracts of country liable to great drought . Probably it is as a protection from herbivorous animals , to prevent them browsing upon the twigs and small branches where ...
Page 145
... vegetation on which they live . Possibly they obtain the salts of potash in this way . I did not notice any provision in the leaves of the Bromeliaceous epiphytes of Chontales to ensure the capture of insects , but often saw their dead ...
... vegetation on which they live . Possibly they obtain the salts of potash in this way . I did not notice any provision in the leaves of the Bromeliaceous epiphytes of Chontales to ensure the capture of insects , but often saw their dead ...
Page 239
... vegetation was dried up , and there was scarcely any water in the river beds . The north - east trade - wind , before it reaches thus far , gives up its moisture to the forests of the Atlantic slope , and now passed over without even a ...
... vegetation was dried up , and there was scarcely any water in the river beds . The north - east trade - wind , before it reaches thus far , gives up its moisture to the forests of the Atlantic slope , and now passed over without even a ...
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