Should it be Virginia, Rosa, Alsace and Lorraine, Flora Bennett?
These results are in harmony with the bacteriological study of Torrey and Hess, who found that there was no increase in the proteolytic flora of the intestine in infants or in guinea-pigs suffering from scurvy.
The Relation of the Intestinal Flora to the Scurvy of Guinea-pigs and of Infants, Proc.
In order to elucidate this question Torrey and Hess made a study of the relation of the intestinal flora to the scurvy of guinea-pigs and of infants.
Bacteria can be demonstrated at times in the submucous layers; however, no type has been found to predominate, the flora being composed of the usual intestinal forms.
It will be seen that the infants were all on a high carbohydrate diet, and that in two instances the flora was compared, not only during the active scorbutic process, but after orange juice had been given for a week or more.
Furthermore, there was no change in the flora on adding antiscorbutic food, although the scorbutic symptoms disappeared.
A reconsideration of the evidence furnished by the references to the fauna and flora of the different points touched at, shows that others of Professor Rafn’s deductions are equally open to correction.
But if trees are scarce, plants like the fuchsia grow to tree-like luxuriance; there is a rich abundance of ferns, while both the land and the marine flora are very rich.
With some developments and some limits, our flora and fauna are absolutely Continental, the limits being even more noticeable as regards Ireland.
Janet was going towards the window to enforce her aunt's orders, but she was desired to keep her seat, and John quickly took up Miss Flora in his arms and set her down at her aunt's knee.
But Flora was too busy, nodding, to hear that she was spoken to.
Flora was allowed to have the fan in her own hands--a very rare favour.
She will be nodding at Flora from the court-yard as often as you are out," cried Lady Rachel.
Once more Flora was desired to come down, and once more she only replied, "Lady nods at me.
Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States.
Marine Flora and fauna of the northeastern United States.
After Flora Macdonald had got him safe from Harris to Skye, she handed him over to the sons of Macleod of Raasay, and it was owing to them that he got to the mainland.
I told Miss White you might come to us to-day; and she was saying what a pity it was that Flora MacDonald was not a Macleod.
And would you have a piper, too, to drown her screams--just as Macdonald of Armadale did when he came with his men to South Uist and carried off Flora Macdonald's mother?
Otherwise we might assert that this later ornament has a different tale to tell from that set forth in the flora of Reims and Amiens, Rouen and Chartres.
Note also the stone flora of the capitals and the pendants of the vault, terminating the long ribs of the arches.
You will find it very useful to study the short stories of Rudyard Kipling, Sir James Barrie, and Mrs. Flora Annie Steel.
Well, my dear, they are come, and, as I expected, brought Flora with them.
I am delighted at the thought of seeing Flora before I go up.
The arrival of Florahas prevented Nancy from going.
I believe I shall scrible a little more to-night, if they should bring Florahome with them, if it is only to give you my opinion of her.
Nevermore should my eyes rest on my portfolio of pressed autumn leaves, my carefully preserved wild flowers, my complete collection of the flora of Western New Jersey!
Nowhere, perhaps, does theflora of West Africa attain a more wonderful development than in the republic of Liberia and in the adjoining regions of Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.
The lichen flora of temperate regions again is essentially distinguished from the preceding by the frequency of corticolous species belonging to Lecanora, Lecidea and Graphidei.
The boundaries of the floraare more sharply defined.
And during the journey to the great heights we shall notice that the flora changes much in the same way as it does from South Italy to the North Cape.
The deficiency of wild flowers found there is in part made up by the presence of sphagnum bogs with a typical fauna and flora of their own.
FLORA AND FAUNA Glacier National Park is exceptionally rich in many kinds of wildlife.
Upon the third day after the Prince had arrived, Flora Macdonald joined him, bringing with her the disguise for the character he was to impersonate upon a proposed journey to the Isle of Skye--viz.
The memorable name of Flora Macdonald now appears upon the scene.
But presently with her riding-whip Flora pointed to a deep black hole in the slimy bog.
Flora wrote to us all, with a postscript in addition to Dugald.
Both Dugald and Archie made excellent patients, and Flora and Aileen the best of nurses.
Having duly signalled her wishes, Flora disappeared over the brow of the hill.
Is it I who lift poor Flora and lay her in the shade of a mimosa-tree?
Poor Flora is very pale, and blood is trickling from a wound in her temple, while her habit is torn and soiled.
If our father was a hero to us boys, not less so was he to our darling mother, and to little Sister Flora as well.
As for your mother, she sat silently weeping, and Flora dared hardly trust herself to look up at all.
But if anything could be called joyful news now surely this was--mother and Flora were at Villa Mercedes, and would be here in a day or two.
If we boys ever forgot ourselves so far as to speak of things secular, there was Flora to lift a warning finger and with terrible earnestness remind us that this was God's day.
I believe the London accent of his voice was at that moment the sweetest music to Flora she had ever heard in her life.
Saved at the very moment when it seemed nothing could save me, for dear Flora has dashed in front of me--has cut across my bows, as sailors would say, striking my pony with all the strength of her arm as she is borne along.
At the time of his death he was engaged on his Flora Capensis, and was generally considered the first authority on algae in the world.
During a lengthy residence in South Africa, he made a careful study of the flora of the Cape of Good Hope and published The Genera of South African Plants.
Under such conditions the character of the bacterialflora was materially modified.
If specific flavors are solely the result of specific bacterial action, it might naturally be expected that the character of the flora would differ.
If the culture organism is added to raw milk or cream which already contains a flora that is well suited to develop in this medium, it is quite doubtful whether it would gain the supremacy in the ripening cream.
Different investigators have studied the bacterial flora of various kinds of cheese, but as yet little comparative systematic work has been done.
FLORA The flowers in Arcady are perennial and bloom all the year round.
St Mark's has frequently required to be raised, and the boring of a well has shown that a layer of vegetable remains, indicating a flora identical with that observed at present on the neighbouring mainland, exists at a depth of 400 ft.
Here palm trees, which had begun to appear singly at Deir, grow in large groves, the olive disappears entirely, and we have definitely passed over from the Syrian to the Babylonian flora and climate.
The facts as to climate, fauna and flora have no relation to any such arbitrary boundary, and all statistical statements referring to the countries of Europe must include the part of Russia beyond the Urals up to the frontier of Siberia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
