The Botanical Gazette

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R. and J.E. Taylor, 1849
 

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Page 63 - ... bundles ; or the increased size of the coming leaf-bud will snap them ; or, if these causes are not in operation, a gust of wind, a heavy shower, or even the simple weight of the lamina, will be enough to disrupt the small connections and send the suicidal member to its grave. Such is the history of the fall of the leaf.
Page 191 - THE TOURIST'S FLORA ; a Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian Islands.
Page 127 - ovules ' of the other families, we can hardly help extending the same views to them, in which case we should have the remarkable phenomenon of a compound organism, in which a new individual, forming a second generation developed after a process of fertilization, remains attached organically to its parent, from which it differs totally in all anatomical and physiological characters.
Page 163 - Twenty-ninth Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, at the close of the Session, 1848-9.
Page 253 - One day an English gentleman in Shanghae, being in conversation with some Chinese from the green-tea country, asked them what reasons they had for dyeing the tea, and whether it would not be better without undergoing this process.
Page 186 - England, and of England with Germany, by great plains, the fragments of which still exist, and upon which lived the great elk and other quadrupeds now extinct.
Page 27 - ... the fruit as it was gathered as well as the gatherer, and at the same time were easily propelled through the masses of ling without doing the plants any injury. The sight of a number of people swimming about on the lake, each in his tub, had something very ludicrous about it. After we had passed the lake, the banks of the canal, and indeed the greater part of the country, were covered with mulberry trees. Silk is evidently the staple production in this part of China.
Page 122 - ... tree. Generally, it is the whole leafage coming off at a given place which represents the whole tree, and the single leaf, when there is a number of leaves, represents merely the branch. 4. Some plants, such as the rhododendron, the azalea, and the lupin, send off leaves which have a tendency to become whorled, and their branches have also a tendency to become verticillate. 5. The stems of some trees, such as the thorn and laburnum, are not straight, and the branches have a twisted form; and...
Page 188 - ... that these islands have been peopled by many colonies successively leaving the continent of Europe, from the epoch of the middle tertiary formation up to our own. When a vast continent extended from the Mediterranean regions to the British islands, the plants of the Asturias, and those of Annorica, peopled the south of England and Ireland.
Page 42 - Manual of the British Marine Algae, containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of all the known British Species of SeaWeeds, with Plates to illustrate all the Genera. By...

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