Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
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Page 44
... characters to Fungi has received compara- tively little recognition . At first sight it would seem unnecessary that a plant , unsusceptible of fertilisation , should possess characters apparently designed to enlist living creatures in ...
... characters to Fungi has received compara- tively little recognition . At first sight it would seem unnecessary that a plant , unsusceptible of fertilisation , should possess characters apparently designed to enlist living creatures in ...
Page 45
... characters . Horses , oxen , sheep , foxes , squirrels , moles , birds , snails , and insects are all attracted by appropriate scents , tastes , and colours ; and the forms and habitats of fungi are those which have least succeeded in ...
... characters . Horses , oxen , sheep , foxes , squirrels , moles , birds , snails , and insects are all attracted by appropriate scents , tastes , and colours ; and the forms and habitats of fungi are those which have least succeeded in ...
Page 50
... character in an eastern county at the early part of the century . This gentleman , being the owner of a large estate some seventy miles from London , and having gardens so prolific that the produce was the source of considerable revenue ...
... character in an eastern county at the early part of the century . This gentleman , being the owner of a large estate some seventy miles from London , and having gardens so prolific that the produce was the source of considerable revenue ...
Page 53
... characters of the Nematocera may be sum- marised as follows . Body , delicately elongated , legs usually long and slender , antennæ of many joints , flexible ; veins in wing numerous , alulæ small , ocelli usually present , anal cell in ...
... characters of the Nematocera may be sum- marised as follows . Body , delicately elongated , legs usually long and slender , antennæ of many joints , flexible ; veins in wing numerous , alulæ small , ocelli usually present , anal cell in ...
Page 59
... character ; there is no distinction of tissues or organs , but their animal substance is homo- geneous , contractile and translucent , resembling a tenaceous mucus or soft tremulous jelly . This jelly substance , in the living state ...
... character ; there is no distinction of tissues or organs , but their animal substance is homo- geneous , contractile and translucent , resembling a tenaceous mucus or soft tremulous jelly . This jelly substance , in the living state ...
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