Flowers, Fruits and LeavesMacmillan, 1886 - 147 páginas |
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Página 41
... remains through the night , very attractive to , and much visited by , moths . Towards three in the morning the scent FIG . 34 - Silene nutans . ceases , the anthers begin to shrivel up or drop off , the filaments turn themselves ...
... remains through the night , very attractive to , and much visited by , moths . Towards three in the morning the scent FIG . 34 - Silene nutans . ceases , the anthers begin to shrivel up or drop off , the filaments turn themselves ...
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... remains uninjured . On the other hand , such seeds as the Hazel , Beech , Spanish Chestnut , and innumerable others , are pro- tected by a thick , impervious shell , which is especially developed in many Proteaceæ , the Brazil - nut ...
... remains uninjured . On the other hand , such seeds as the Hazel , Beech , Spanish Chestnut , and innumerable others , are pro- tected by a thick , impervious shell , which is especially developed in many Proteaceæ , the Brazil - nut ...
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... remains attached to the central column and the seed only is ejected . It will , however , be remembered that the capsule is , as already observed , a leaf folded on itself , with the edges inwards , and in fact in the Geranium the seed ...
... remains attached to the central column and the seed only is ejected . It will , however , be remembered that the capsule is , as already observed , a leaf folded on itself , with the edges inwards , and in fact in the Geranium the seed ...
Página 60
... remains attached to it . Under these circumstances it is unnecessary for the chamber to raise itself from the central pillar , to which accord- ingly it remains close until the moment of disruption ( Fig . 41 , e ) . The seed - chamber ...
... remains attached to it . Under these circumstances it is unnecessary for the chamber to raise itself from the central pillar , to which accord- ingly it remains close until the moment of disruption ( Fig . 41 , e ) . The seed - chamber ...
Página 64
... remains of the flower , is also somewhat eccentric , and , when the seeds are ripe , if it is touched even lightly , the fruit explodes and the seeds are thrown to some distance . The mechanism by which this is effected has been ...
... remains of the flower , is also somewhat eccentric , and , when the seeds are ripe , if it is touched even lightly , the fruit explodes and the seeds are thrown to some distance . The mechanism by which this is effected has been ...
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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,...