The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of TravelHumboldt Publishing Company, 1889 - 774 pages |
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Page 632
... height . It interested me much afterward to find that these climbing trees do not form any particular family . There is no distinct group of plants whose especial habit is to climb , but species of many and the most diverse families ...
... height . It interested me much afterward to find that these climbing trees do not form any particular family . There is no distinct group of plants whose especial habit is to climb , but species of many and the most diverse families ...
Page 635
... height . It is closely allied to the Brazil - nut tree ( Berthol- letia excelsa ) , whose seeds are also inclosed in large woody vessels ; but these have no lid , and fall entire to the ground . This is the reason why the one kind of ...
... height . It is closely allied to the Brazil - nut tree ( Berthol- letia excelsa ) , whose seeds are also inclosed in large woody vessels ; but these have no lid , and fall entire to the ground . This is the reason why the one kind of ...
Page 661
... height of sixty feet or more , and waved their bunches of nodding plumes between us and the sky . One kind of palm , the Pashiúba ( Iriartea exorhiza ) , which grows here in greater abundance than elsewhere , was espe- cially attractive ...
... height of sixty feet or more , and waved their bunches of nodding plumes between us and the sky . One kind of palm , the Pashiúba ( Iriartea exorhiza ) , which grows here in greater abundance than elsewhere , was espe- cially attractive ...
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