Plant-life: Popular Papers on the Phenomena of BotanyM. Japp, 1881 - 216 páginas |
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... roots . Yet even these have certain powers of movement - at any rate , during portions of their lives . Have you not observed how plants bend towards the light , and how some that in the morning inclined to the east , in the evening ...
... roots . Yet even these have certain powers of movement - at any rate , during portions of their lives . Have you not observed how plants bend towards the light , and how some that in the morning inclined to the east , in the evening ...
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... roots to nourish the plant , and the aerial hyphæ , when they have reached a certain height , produce at their summits a chain of round cells very like Torulæ . These are the spores . They serve the same purpose as -though they must not ...
... roots to nourish the plant , and the aerial hyphæ , when they have reached a certain height , produce at their summits a chain of round cells very like Torulæ . These are the spores . They serve the same purpose as -though they must not ...
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... Root Within this are seen the fibro - vascular bundles ( Fv ) . St marks the presence of the stomates . The food of a plant is of two kinds - liquid and gaseous . The liquid food is obtained from the soil through the roots , and ...
... Root Within this are seen the fibro - vascular bundles ( Fv ) . St marks the presence of the stomates . The food of a plant is of two kinds - liquid and gaseous . The liquid food is obtained from the soil through the roots , and ...
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... roots absorb the liquid food ( sap ) from the ground , it passes from cell to cell , and through cer- tain vessels of the fibro - vascular bundle until it reaches the leaves . The warmth of the sun causes the water in the leaf - cells ...
... roots absorb the liquid food ( sap ) from the ground , it passes from cell to cell , and through cer- tain vessels of the fibro - vascular bundle until it reaches the leaves . The warmth of the sun causes the water in the leaf - cells ...
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... roots and leaves . The presence of starch in a plant may always be detected by the application of a slight quantity of iodine to the cell , when , if it contains starch , it will be stained blue . Oils and fats are also stored up as ...
... roots and leaves . The presence of starch in a plant may always be detected by the application of a slight quantity of iodine to the cell , when , if it contains starch , it will be stained blue . Oils and fats are also stored up as ...
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Página 123 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 147 - Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Página 148 - Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost. To them, slow-fingered, constant-hearted, is entrusted the weaving of the dark, eternal tapestries of the hills ; to them, slowpencilled, iris-dyed, the tender framing of their endless imagery.
Página 148 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone.
Página 104 - If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road. Immortal water, alive even to the superficies. Fire is the most tolerable third party. Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
Página 125 - ... heath-plants were wholly changed, but twelve species of plants (not counting grasses and carices) flourished in the plantations, which could not be found on the heath. The effect on the insects must have been still greater, for six insectivorous birds were very common in the plantations, which were not to be seen on the heath ; and the heath was frequented by two or three distinct insectivorous birds.
Página 86 - When the bee, thus provided, flies to another flower, or to the same flower a second time, and is pushed by its comrades into the bucket and then crawls out by the passage, the pollen-mass necessarily comes first into contact with the viscid stigma, and adheres to it, and the flower is fertilised.
Página 122 - If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Página 216 - Here is a book which should be in the hands of every boy in the kingdom in whose mind it is desirable to implant a true ideal of life, and a just notion of the proper objects of ambition ; and we may congratulate Mr. Page upon having carried out his task with all possible care and skill. ' Leaders of Men ' is every way an admirable volume.
Página 114 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...