Flowers, Fruits and LeavesMacmillan, 1886 - 147 páginas |
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... consider- ably smaller than the other , a difference , the import- ance of which is obvious , for each pollen grain has to give rise to a tube which penetrates the whole length of the style , from the stigma to the base of the flower ...
... consider- ably smaller than the other , a difference , the import- ance of which is obvious , for each pollen grain has to give rise to a tube which penetrates the whole length of the style , from the stigma to the base of the flower ...
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... not generally so con- spicuous as flowers , are not less interesting . In considering them , it is fortunately not necessary to use many technical terms , though it is impossible 46 STRUCTURE OF SEED . [ CHAP . In order.
... not generally so con- spicuous as flowers , are not less interesting . In considering them , it is fortunately not necessary to use many technical terms , though it is impossible 46 STRUCTURE OF SEED . [ CHAP . In order.
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... consider that the peculiarities of seeds have reference to the plant itself , and not to the convenience of botanists . In the first place , then , during growth , seeds in many cases require protection . This is especially the case ...
... consider that the peculiarities of seeds have reference to the plant itself , and not to the convenience of botanists . In the first place , then , during growth , seeds in many cases require protection . This is especially the case ...
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... consider how small the spring is . In their natural habitat it is almost impossible to find the seeds when once thrown . I therefore brought a Diagram . FIG . 43. - Geranium robertianum . a , just before throwing the seed ; b , the rod ...
... consider how small the spring is . In their natural habitat it is almost impossible to find the seeds when once thrown . I therefore brought a Diagram . FIG . 43. - Geranium robertianum . a , just before throwing the seed ; b , the rod ...
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... considering . They are long , narrow , and arranged all round the stem , but spread right and left , so that they lie in one plane , parallel to the direction of the branchlet , and their width bears just such a relation to their ...
... considering . They are long , narrow , and arranged all round the stem , but spread right and left , so that they lie in one plane , parallel to the direction of the branchlet , and their width bears just such a relation to their ...
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Acacia advantage Agrimony allied animals anthers ants arrangement Beech bees belong branch canina capsule Cardamine carpel CHAP close colour common contrary corolla Crown 8vo curious Darwin Deadnettle dispersion distance Ditto Drosera Drosera rotundifolia edible Epilobium fertilised fertilised by insects flattened fleshy florets flower-head flowers Fritz Müller fruits genera genus Geranium Geranium dissectum Grant Allen ground grow Herb Herb Robert Hibiscus pedunculatus hirta honey hooks Hornbeam Horse Chestnut Illustrations inches insects instance internodes keel Lamium large number Lathyrus leaf-stalk leaflets leaves less light Lime lobed Maple maturity Moreover nearly observed ovary palmate perhaps petals pinnate pistil plants pods pollen Poplar produced protected resemblance ripe ripen scent Seedling seeds Senecio sepals small insects Spanish Chestnut species SQUIRTING CUCUMBER stalk stamens stamens and pistil stem stigma stomata surface Sycamore Thrincia throw trees tube upper Viola canina visited by insects wasp wind wings
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Página 98 - But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to blossom ; they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder.
Página 117 - Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert.
Página 97 - Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity : children love them ; quiet, tender, contented ordinary people love them as they grow; luxurious and disorderly people rejoice in them gathered : They are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little...
Página 98 - Now. why is this marvellous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result from some innate tendency of each species? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man ? Or has the form and size and texture some reference to the structure and organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant...
Página 3 - ... unknown until Mr. Darwin devoted himself to the subject. Our illustrious countryman was the first clearly to perceive that the essential service which insects perform to flowers, consists not only in transferring the pollen from the stamens to the pistil, but in transferring it from the stamens of one flower to the pistil of another. Sprengel had indeed observed in more than one instance that this was the case, but he did not altogether appreciate the importance of the fact. Mr. Darwin, however,...