Treviranus, professor of botany in Bonn, roused the attention of botanists to the development of the embryo, but although he made valuable researches, he did not add much in the way of new information.
Botanists tell us that it grows to a height of two hundred and seventy-five feet, and travellers say that it reaches three hundred feet.
The tree is supposed by some botanists to be a form of the Siebold walnut, but it has quite a different appearance.
As the botanists started, Speug, who had maintained an unusual silence all morning, joined the body along with Nestie, and gave Mr. Byles to understand that he also was hungering for scientific research.
Thus land vegetation begins with the highest members of the lower of the two great series into which botanists divide the vegetable kingdom.
But in VancouveraEuro(TM)s Island these same Upper Cretaceous beds contain an abundant flora, which somebotanists have called Tertiary for the reason already mentioned.
It is proper to add that these ancient vegetable fossils are regarded by some English botanists as gigantic algA| or sea-weeds, but I confess I am unable to adopt this view of their nature.
We have of late been very familiar with those ingenious, not to say amusing, speculations in which some entomologists and botanists have indulged with reference to the mutual relations of flowers and haustellate insects.
I know not who to write to for it, as botanists of course ignore it, and G.
Baker for Mauritius and other Mascarene islands; while there were floras by competent botanists of the Sandwich Islands, Bermuda and St. Helena.
THE FIGS The genus ficus belongs to all tropical countries, and this remarkable range accounts for the six hundred different species botanists have identified.
After Linnaeus's time botanists found that the genus name in combination with this marginal word made a convenient and exact means of designating the plant.
Many trees were never noticed by anybody until botanists discovered and named them.
It is the sole representative of its genus in the world, so far as botanists know.
The basket oak is so like the preceding species as to be listed by some botanists as the southern form of Q.
American "forests primeval" were swept with the woodman's axe before the hawthorns had their chance to assert themselves sufficiently to attract the attention ofbotanists and horticulturists.
Many botanists divide the Ph\'91nogamia primarily into Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, and the latter into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons.
The number of sorts described by botanists as species, and as natives of Europe, exceed 30; and as natives of North America, 40.
I sent some of the leaves to one of the ablest botanists we have, Mr. Lightfoot, author of the Flora Scotica, and was in hopes of hearing something satisfactory on the subject.
The theory that leaf variegation is a disease has been held by many distinguished botanists and is in nowise new.
This fact is a proven one, and so admitted to be by all botanists and vegetable physiologists of the present day.
Linnaeus and the earlier botanists recognized six species of cultivated barleys, but modern botanists usually consider all cultivated barleys as belonging to one species to which the name H.
Hostile embargo may now be said to be looked upon with disfavor, and a contrary policy is generally adopted, by which merchant vessels may be allowed a certain time in which to load and depart even after the outbreak of hostilities.
Commencement It is now assumed that peace is the normal relation of states.
Fisheries The existence of fisheries has given rise to some special claims to extension of maritime jurisdiction.
The terms below are often used loosely in practice.
If military operations or other reasons should so require, permission to enter a blockaded port can be restricted or denied.
Gallatin, Minister, liability of servant of, to local jurisdiction, 180.
As Hall says: "In the performance of these and similar duties the action of a consul is evidently not international.
Hence the name of Musa paradisiaca, given by botanists to one of the two species of the genus; the other is the Banana of the wise men, Musa sapientum.
Polygonaceae, which botanists class with the allied buckwheat and knot-grasses, and which attains the stature of three to four feet.
Some of the latter trees may be ranged among the greatest with which botanists are acquainted.
According to Richard, the approximative number of species distinguished by botanists amounts to about five thousand; but so many discoveries have been made of later years, that we may raise the estimate to seven thousand.
He states that botanistsare now generally agreed that the cardoon and the artichoke are varieties of one plant.
What a shame it is that botanists should know nothing whatever of the formation and structure of wood!
His letters to Botanists would of course be more important and interesting.
The oldbotanists indeed had examined with every minuteness the structure and economy of the blossoms, had counted the stamens and the pistils, and known the origin of the swelling of the seed-vessel.
Fresh species of plants are continually enriching our flower-beds, and botanists are constantly searching the wildest and most remote corners of the world on behalf of the English stove-house, conservatory, and garden.
It is held by some botanists (Celakovsky) that the seminiferous scale of the Abietineae is homologous with the arillus or second integument of the Taxaceae, but this view is too strained to gain general acceptance.
The abundance of petrified coniferous wood in rocks of various ages has led many botanists to investigate the structure of modern genera with a view to determining how far anatomical characters may be used as evidence of generic distinctions.
Naturalists will of course prefer other limits according as they are geologists, botanists or zoologists.
It has been called by botanists pinus Lambertiana.
I have already said that my wife understood botany, and all botanists take a pleasure in imparting their knowledge to others.
I leave botanists to explain the cause of this singular anomaly; I only state facts.
Among those already introduced are two species of shrubby honeysuckle, white and rose-blossomed: these are called by the American botanists quilostium.
It is only our duty to remember with gratitude all those long since departed botanists who have made our life so full of luxury and have supplied our doctors with all kinds of medicines.
But true botanists get accustomed to disagreeable incidents like that, and pay no attention to the vulgar crowd.
At his time and indeed for many years afterwards, botanists looked on the stamens, petals, and other parts of the flower exactly in the way that a stamp collector looks at punctures and postmarks, that is without thinking about their meaning.
Three botanists who were sent to investigate the question suggested that this Assam variety was only the Chinese plant run wild, and advised the introduction of Chinese seedlings.
The most interesting point forbotanists about this plant is that the fruit is made up of thousands of little flowers, and the fleshy part is really the stalk.
He has observed it even between closely related forms (as Matthiola annua and glabra) which many botanists rank only as varieties.
For instance, the blue and red pimpernel, which are considered by most botanistsas varieties, are said by Gartner to be quite sterile when crossed, and he consequently ranks them as undoubted species.
Dig up the root of the Solomon's seal, a rootstock, the botanistscall it.
Now the botanists have found that this odor, which is so unpleasant to the human nostrils, does the plant a real service by attracting the common green flesh-flies, such as are seen in the butchershops in the summer-time.
He has the merit of having directed the attention of the Botanists of this country to one of the most abstruse and difficult parts of that science; to the advancement of which he has himself, very greatly contributed.
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