My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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Page 71
... tree , which , though infested by galls of many kinds and devoured by numerous caterpillars , is yet not in the least ... trees time to recuperate and attain to their former vigour ; while in the following year the birds have less food ...
... tree , which , though infested by galls of many kinds and devoured by numerous caterpillars , is yet not in the least ... trees time to recuperate and attain to their former vigour ; while in the following year the birds have less food ...
Page 72
... tree of T. neriifolia grew near the Commandante's house . It bore flowers and ripe fruits - drupes , with a thin yellowish cuticle , and about as much flesh on them as on an average plum ; and I noticed that the Com- mandante's fowls ...
... tree of T. neriifolia grew near the Commandante's house . It bore flowers and ripe fruits - drupes , with a thin yellowish cuticle , and about as much flesh on them as on an average plum ; and I noticed that the Com- mandante's fowls ...
Page 73
... trees of the order Artocarpeæ ( Pouruma cecropiæfolia , P. retusa , P. apiculata & c . ) . Among the smaller Palms ( Bactris and Geonoma ) some have bright red , others black fruits . Papaws have the fruit yellow in the species of the ...
... trees of the order Artocarpeæ ( Pouruma cecropiæfolia , P. retusa , P. apiculata & c . ) . Among the smaller Palms ( Bactris and Geonoma ) some have bright red , others black fruits . Papaws have the fruit yellow in the species of the ...
Page 74
... trees from herbivorous animals , combined with perfectly innocuous and often agree- able fleshy or juicy fruits in order to assist in their dispersal , so clearly implies a selective agency in two opposite directions in the same species ...
... trees from herbivorous animals , combined with perfectly innocuous and often agree- able fleshy or juicy fruits in order to assist in their dispersal , so clearly implies a selective agency in two opposite directions in the same species ...
Page 91
... trees had grown up in its less precipitous portions . The chalk here was capped by about twenty feet of Thanet sand and pleistocene gravel , and from the fields at the top there was a beautiful view over Erith to the Kent hills and down ...
... trees had grown up in its less precipitous portions . The chalk here was capped by about twenty feet of Thanet sand and pleistocene gravel , and from the fields at the top there was a beautiful view over Erith to the Kent hills and down ...
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