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
... 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 , the bulk of whose members are not climbers , seem to have been driven ...
... 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 , the bulk of whose members are not climbers , seem to have been driven ...
Page 635
... trees . The general run of trees had not re- timber . We were glad , therefore , to see this markably thick stems ; the great and uni- wonderful tree growing in its native wilds . form height to which they grow without It is one of the ...
... trees . The general run of trees had not re- timber . We were glad , therefore , to see this markably thick stems ; the great and uni- wonderful tree growing in its native wilds . form height to which they grow without It is one of the ...
Page 688
... trees , while on the Rio Negro they play a very subordinate part . The characteristic kind in the latter region is the Jará ( Leopol dinia pulchra ) , a species not found on the margins of the Amazons , which has a scanty head of fronds ...
... trees , while on the Rio Negro they play a very subordinate part . The characteristic kind in the latter region is the Jará ( Leopol dinia pulchra ) , a species not found on the margins of the Amazons , which has a scanty head of fronds ...
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