Lessons in Elementary Botany. The part on systematic botany based upon material left in manuscript by ... Professor Henslow. With numerous illustrations1864 |
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Page 15 - Take six or eight of the largest, healthiest leaves you can find, two tumblers filled to within an inch of the top with water, two empty dry tumblers, and two pieces of card each large enough to cover the mouth of the tumbler. In the middle of each card bore three or four small holes just wide enough to allow the petiole of a leaf to pass through. Let the petioles hang sufficiently deep in the water when the cards are put upon the tumblers containing it. Having arranged matters thus, turn the empty...
Page iii - OLIVER (Professor)— FIRST BOOK OF INDIAN BOTANY. By Professor DANIEL OLIVER, FRS, FLS, Keeper of the Herbarium and Library of the Royal Gardens, Kew, With numerous Illustrations. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d.
Page 25 - Surely, it will not be contended that Palephemera and the highly specialised Titanophasma are more nearly related to each other than they are to the modern families Libellulidse and Phasmidse, not to mention the orders to which these belong ; and if this be so, why should they be referred rather to the one loose comprehensive group than to the several groups which they immediately represent...
Page 150 - Byttneriacece, and is grown in Trinidad, the northern provinces of South America, and Brazil. The seeds, closely packed, are contained in a pericarp 4 to 6 inches long and 2 or 3 inches in diameter. They are dried, roasted, and ground to form cocoa. Finely ground, made up into paste, and flavoured, they form chocolate. In 1890 nearly 28 millions of pounds of cocoa were imported into Great Britain, upwards of 20 millions being entered for home use.