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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... plants whose especial habit is to climb , but species of many and the most diverse families , the bulk of whose members are not climbers , seem to have been driven by circumstances to adopt this habit . There is even a climbing genus of ...
... plants whose especial habit is to climb , but species of many and the most diverse families , the bulk of whose members are not climbers , seem to have been driven by circumstances to adopt this habit . There is even a climbing genus of ...
Page 678
... plants to search cryptogamic plants . I found here two ex- for flowers , meeting , however , with no suc- quisite species of Longicorn beetles , and a I learned afterward that the plant is large kind of grasshopper ( Pterochroza ) ...
... plants to search cryptogamic plants . I found here two ex- for flowers , meeting , however , with no suc- quisite species of Longicorn beetles , and a I learned afterward that the plant is large kind of grasshopper ( Pterochroza ) ...
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... plants . Unless such be shown to exist , it is impossible to solve some of the most difficult problems connected with the distribution of plants and animals . Some species , with most limited powers of locomotion , are found in opposite ...
... plants . Unless such be shown to exist , it is impossible to solve some of the most difficult problems connected with the distribution of plants and animals . Some species , with most limited powers of locomotion , are found in opposite ...
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