Sediment deposited in deep water will never contain fossils in abundance, the deep parts of the ocean being almost wholly destitute of animal or vegetable life.
The greatest development of vegetable life was, however, during the carboniferous period.
Wherever sediment is deposited, it will entomb whatever of the remains of animal or vegetable life may be mingled with it.
Fraas has endeavored to show, by the history of vegetation in Greece, not merely that clearing and cultivation have affected climate, but that change of climate has essentially modified the character of vegetable life.
Among the loveliest children of Flora we must include the mimosa, with its delicately pinnated foliage, so endowed with sensibility that it seems to have stepped out of the bounds of vegetable life.
In going from the pole to the equator we find that insect life increases in the same proportion as vegetable life.
Snow then covers the last effort of vegetable life.
The Guayas is a sluggish stream, its turbid waters starting from the slope of the Andes, and flowing through a low, level tract, covered with varied forms of vegetable life.
Thus, in considering the value of that evidence in favour of the existence of a certain class of vegetable life at any given period, if we find (says the Rev.
The influence of the solar beams on vegetation is proved by common experience; the closer examination of its action on vegetable life is reserved for the chapter devoted to its phenomena.
The importance of these variations, to the great economy of vegetable life, will be shown when we come to examine the phenomena connected with organisation.
There are many plants which can accommodate themselves to the most diverse climates and localities; and therefore ascend from the plains close to the boundary of vegetable life on the highest mountains.
There is only one state which seems fatal to the existence of vegetable life--the entire absence of humidity.
This effect of equable though high temperature is not confined to the varied forms of vegetable life.
Is it not probable that it proceeds from an effort of nature to support the feeble remains of vegetable life?
The peculiar form and modification of vegetable life in the islands we have lately visited, as well as in this, cannot, I imagine, be altogether attributed to the influence of the monsoons.
That phosphoric acid is of universal occurrence may be assumed from the fact of the almost universal occurrence of vegetable lifeon the earth's surface; for plants are unable to grow without it.
The presence of acidity in a soil is hurtful to vegetable life.
To animal life it is alone available in combined form; to vegetable life it is chiefly also only available in combined form.
The secret of vegetable life, then, is in the green substance of the leaf where science is powerless to unlock it.
The animal is dependent upon the vegetable for its carbon, which it releases again, through the life processes, as carbonic-acid gas, to be again drawn into the cycle of vegetable life.
This draught, however, would not have been very refreshing, for the water was warm and full of vegetable life.
In the summer season a few flowers may still be found along the river banks, although the intense heat in most sections has burned and withered almost every form of vegetable life.
Stubbles and tufts of mimosas are the only signs of vegetable life.
If to these p 342 manifold currents and gyratory movements we add the phenomena of endosmosis, nutrition, and growth, we shall have some idea of those forces which are ever active amid the apparent repose of vegetable life.
Cacti are the most numerous of the species of vegetable life.
Sulphurous soil and sulphurous air have proven fatal to vegetable life.
Where animal life is, we may fairly infer the existence of vegetable life as well, since the plant is the only producer of food for the animal.
The climate and atmosphere of the Laurentian may have been well adapted for the sustenance of vegetable life.
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