The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... growth , colouring , and inflorescence , to prove that , lati- tude for latitude , the prime governing influence is essenti- ally solar . As with latitude , which is influenced in the main by light and heat , so with height above the ...
... growth , colouring , and inflorescence , to prove that , lati- tude for latitude , the prime governing influence is essenti- ally solar . As with latitude , which is influenced in the main by light and heat , so with height above the ...
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... growth of the timber - tree during a genial than during an ungenial summer ; the southern slopes of a hill are more verdant and flowery than those of its northern side ; some plants luxuriate in the sea - breeze which would be death to ...
... growth of the timber - tree during a genial than during an ungenial summer ; the southern slopes of a hill are more verdant and flowery than those of its northern side ; some plants luxuriate in the sea - breeze which would be death to ...
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... growth lies at the basis of all vegetable develop- ment . He also finds that the primary structural form into which it is developed is a LEAF or leaf - like organ ; and that this leaf - like organ manifests itself variously - rising ...
... growth lies at the basis of all vegetable develop- ment . He also finds that the primary structural form into which it is developed is a LEAF or leaf - like organ ; and that this leaf - like organ manifests itself variously - rising ...
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... growth and perfection . The higher , therefore , that a plant is in the scale of being , the more specialised its organisation ; that is , instead of all the functions or several of its functions being performed by the same organ , each ...
... growth and perfection . The higher , therefore , that a plant is in the scale of being , the more specialised its organisation ; that is , instead of all the functions or several of its functions being performed by the same organ , each ...
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... growth and the organs of re- production . On the other hand , in the Flowering ( Phane- rogams or Spermocarps ) the organs of reproduction are apparent the seed being enclosed in an embryo in which the rudiments of the future plant are ...
... growth and the organs of re- production . On the other hand , in the Flowering ( Phane- rogams or Spermocarps ) the organs of reproduction are apparent the seed being enclosed in an embryo in which the rudiments of the future plant are ...
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Стр. 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Стр. 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...