Familiar Lectures on Botany: Including Practical and Elementary Botany : with Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Most Common Native and Foreign Plants, and a Vocabulary of Botanical Terms : for the Use of Higher Schools and AcademiesF.J. Huntington, 1832 - 440 страници |
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... substance of the book might be much condensed . In answer to this objection , I would remark , that from experience in teaching others , and from observation of the operations of my own mind , I am led to believe that books most ...
... substance of the book might be much condensed . In answer to this objection , I would remark , that from experience in teaching others , and from observation of the operations of my own mind , I am led to believe that books most ...
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... substances for each other were the same , before the science of Chemistry existed , as they are now . It is an important truth , and one which cannot be too much im- pressed upon the mind in all scientific investigations , that no ...
... substances for each other were the same , before the science of Chemistry existed , as they are now . It is an important truth , and one which cannot be too much im- pressed upon the mind in all scientific investigations , that no ...
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... substance is the product of a plant whose fruit ( often termed potatoe balls ) is poisonous . The root of some of the orchis plants consists of two tubers , resembling the two lobes into which a bean may be divided , c . Tuberous roots ...
... substance is the product of a plant whose fruit ( often termed potatoe balls ) is poisonous . The root of some of the orchis plants consists of two tubers , resembling the two lobes into which a bean may be divided , c . Tuberous roots ...
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... substance is usually fleshy and juicy ; some of them flourish in the most dry and sandy places , exposed to a burning sun ; as the Stapelia , sometimes called the vegetable camel . The Epedendrum grows and blossoms for years , suspended ...
... substance is usually fleshy and juicy ; some of them flourish in the most dry and sandy places , exposed to a burning sun ; as the Stapelia , sometimes called the vegetable camel . The Epedendrum grows and blossoms for years , suspended ...
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... stipe ? -Difference between stiped and cauline plants - Which first formed ? -Different applica- tions of the term stipe - Stipe of a dandelion seed -- Of a fungus . Herbaceous , having a tender substance , which usually dies. 6 STEM . 61.
... stipe ? -Difference between stiped and cauline plants - Which first formed ? -Different applica- tions of the term stipe - Stipe of a dandelion seed -- Of a fungus . Herbaceous , having a tender substance , which usually dies. 6 STEM . 61.
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