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Page 140 - Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species,” connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts.
Page 1 - A NATURAL SYSTEM OF BOTANY; or, a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution of the whole Vegetable Kingdom : together with the Uses of the most important Species in Medicine, the Arts, &c.
Page 309 - It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals ; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense organs, and directing the several movements
Page 242 - ... the different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, were mainly based on his own quiet work in the greenhouse and garden at Down. His volumes on the descent of man, and on the expression of the emotions in man and animals, completed his contributions to the biological argument. His last volume, published the year before his death, treated of the formation...
Page 44 - A name should be changed which has before been proposed for some other genus in zoology or botany, or for some other species in the same genus, when still retained for such genus or species.
Page 338 - They are dryer than our English pompions, and better tasted. You may eat them green.
Page 349 - ... two, or three feet high, they stick the beans in the ground alongside of the maize-stalks, which serve instead of the poles which we use in our Fatherland, for beans to grow on. In New Netherland, the beans are raised on the maize-stalks, which grow as high as a man can reach, and higher, according to the fertility of the soil. There are also pumpkins, water-melons, and melons. They (the Indians) dry the nuts of trees, and use them for food.
Page 118 - ... divisions, so as to facilitate the comparison of each plant with those nearest allied to it ; and they should be accompanied by an artificial key or index, by means of which the student may be guided step by step in the observation of such peculiarities or characters in his plant as may lead him, with the least delay, to the individual description belonging to it.
Page 255 - Pall Mall Gazette. PRIMER OF BOTANY. With Illustrations. i8mo. is. New Edition, revised and corrected. Hooker and Ball. — JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN MAROCCO AND THE GREAT ATLAS. By Sir JD HOOKER, KCSI, CB, FRS , &c., and JOHN BALL, FRS With Appendices, including a Sketch of the Geology of Marocco. By G. MAW, FLS, FGS With Map and Illustrations. 8vo. 2is. " This is, without doubt, one of the most interesting and valuable books of travel published for many years.
Page 308 - But the most striking resemblance is the localization of their sensitiveness, and the transmission of an influence from the excited part to another, which consequently moves. Yet plants do not of course possess nerves or a central nervous system ; and we may infer that with animals such structures serve only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the more complete intercommunication of the several parts " (Darwin : Power of Movement in Plants, 1880, p.