The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany, Volumen14

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Página 21 - ... the lower orders are the better able to overcome the competition and to assert themselves. On this point the further questions arise, whether the fungi prevail simply in virtue of the absence of adverse and vigorous competition, or whether to a greater or less extent as parasites, and so at the expense of the sluggish underground growth of the plants in association with them ; or, lastly, have these plants the power of assimilating nitrogen in some form from the atmosphere, or in some form or...
Página vii - Expedition in the Admiralty Islands, Ternate and Cape York. Vol. XV, p. 112.
Página 112 - Expedition, in the Admiralty Islands, Ternate, and Cape York, one of which forms the type of a new section of the genus Dendrobium. By Professor HG Reichenbach.
Página iv - On the Lichens collected by Professor RO CUNNINGHAM in the Falkland Islands, Fuegia, Patagonia and the Island of Chiloe during the Voyage of HMS »Nassau» 1867—9 (The Journal of the Linnean Society.
Página 20 - ... of their dry substance consists of nitrogenous matters. The dry substance further generally contains from 8 to 10 per cent. of mineral matter or ash, of which about 80 per cent. is phosphate of potassium. In fact, fungi would appear to be among the most highly nitrogenous of plants, and to be also very rich in potass. Yet the fungi have developed in
Página 122 - ... far beyond the tropical limit in the Southern Ocean, where various natural orders, which do not cross the 30th and 40th- parallels of N. latitude, are extended to the 55th of S. latitude, and found in Tasmania, New Zealand, the so-called Antarctic Islands south of that group, and at Cape Horn itself. The rarity of Pines is perhaps the most curious feature in the botany of Tonglo, and on the outer ranges of Sikkim ; for, between the level of 2,500 feet (the upper limit of P. longifolia) and 10,000...
Página 323 - Chroococcus as observed at the springs near the lake was abundant," etc. . . . ''A little lower down in a small pool of hot mud and water, so hot that the finger could only be borne in it for a short time, grows a sedge . . . and an abundant growth of alga-, Chroococcus, OteUlatoria [To/yjihothi-ii- f. Archer. TWED ] and some Diatoms with endochrome complete.
Página 202 - Afr. 427 Shaw? John. *0n the changes going on in the vegetation of South Africa through the introduction of the Merino sheep. In the Journal of the Linn.
Página 222 - On the Lichens collected by Professor RO Cunningham in the Falkland Islands. Fuegia, Patagonia, and the Island of Chiloe during the Voyage of HMS »Nassau

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