 one single lateral branchlet of a [dead] tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds. This tendril had five disk-bearing branches, of equal thickness and of apparently equal strength...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 1281866Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1870 - 726 pages
...exposed to the weather in a dead state for fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was...weight of exactly two pounds. This tendril had five disc-bearing branches of equal thickness and of apparently equal strength; so that this one tendril,... | |
 | 1866 - 466 pages
...several attached branches of a branched tendril ; and this must render the whole tendril far stronger, ns branch after branch cannot separately break. It is...this one tendril, after having been exposed during ten years to the weather, would have resisted a strain of ten pounds." Our space will not allow even... | |
 | 1871 - 806 pages
...fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least Fig. 89. (JraiM'-vlne. ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight...this one tendril, after having been exposed during ten years to the weather, would have resisted a strain of ten pounds! Spiral Contractions.—Tendrils... | |
 | 1871 - 1016 pages
...fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least Grape-vine. ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight...this one tendril, after having been exposed during ten years to the weather, would have resisted a strain of ten pounds ! Spiral Contractions. — Tendrils... | |
 | 1871 - 804 pages
...fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least Grape-vine. ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds. This tendril hud five disk-bearing branches of equal thickness and of apparently equal strength, so that this one... | |
 | 1871 - 812 pages
...weather for fourteen or fifteen yea single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be i Grape-vine. ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds. This tendril hud five disk-bearing branches of equal thickness and of apparently equal strength, so that this one... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 400 pages
...exposed to the weather in a dead state for fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was...elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds. The whole tendril had five disc-bearing branches of equal thickness and apparently of equal strength... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 242 pages
...exposed to the weather in a dead state for fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was...elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds. The whole tendril had five disc-bearing branches of equal thickness and apparently of equal strength... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1889 - 426 pages
...tendrils soon shrink up or wither and fall off, as we observe in the Grapevine, Virginia Creeper, etc., these same plants show how an attached tendril thickens...five disk-bearing branches, of equal thickness and apparently equal strength ; so that this one tendril, after having been exposed during ten years to... | |
 | 1867 - 572 pages
...exposed to the weather in a dead state for fourteen or fifteen years. One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was...this one tendril, after having been exposed during ten years to the weather, would have resisted a strain of ten pounds ! SAPINDAOEJE. — Cardiospermum... | |
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