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... Flowers, Fruits and Leaves - Página 98por Sir John Lubbock - 1886 - 147 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1885 - 900 páginas
...innate tendency of each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man ? or have the form, and size, and texture some reference to...abnormal forms of leaves : the pitchers of Nepenthes or Cephalotits, the pitfalls of Sarracenia or Darlingtonia, the spring -trap leaves of Dioncea, the scarcely... | |
| W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 426 páginas
...variety in the appearances of leaves, ask, as if the questions were mutually exclusive and inconsistent, "Does it result from some innate tendency of each...organization, the habits and requirements of the whole plant?"1 and then proceed to write and to investigate as if an affirmative to the last question could... | |
| W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 páginas
...variety in the appearances of leaves, ask, as if the questions were mutually exclusive and inconsistent, "Does it result from some innate tendency of each...delight the eye of man \ or has the form, and size, and THE USE OF BEAUTY. 331 texture some reference to the structure and organization, the habits and requirements... | |
| Jane Hancox Newell - 1889 - 232 páginas
...1880. p. 97. in wreaths, endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstock to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness...any of the more unusual and abnormal forms of leaves ; . . . I propose, rather, to ask you to consider the structure, and especially the forms, of the common,... | |
| Jane Hancox Newell - 1889 - 232 páginas
...1886. p. 97. in wreaths, endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstock to blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness...any of the more unusual and abnormal forms of leaves ; . . . I propose, rather, to ask you to consider the structure, and especially the forms, of the common,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 928 páginas
...observe that the forms of leaves are almost infinitely varied. To quote Ruskin's vivid words, they "take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 812 páginas
...kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Star-shaped, heart-shaped, spear-shap:d, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated,...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 708 páginas
...spires, in wreaths, endlessly expressive, | deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to j blossom, they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness,...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the interior... | |
| 1891 - 1226 páginas
...from some innate tendency of each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man Î Or has the form and size and texture some reference...organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant ? The leaf, although so thin, is no mere membrane, but is built up of many layers of cells, and the... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 páginas
...variety ? this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result from some innate tendency in each species ? Is it intentionally designed to delight...size and texture some reference to the structure and organisation, the habits and requirements of the whole plant ? I shall never forget hearing Darwin's... | |
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