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... known as mosses , lichens , algæ , and fungi . They open up a vast field of physiological re- search . They constitute a microcosm , an imperium in imperio , a strange minute world underlying this great world of sense and sight , which ...
... known as mosses , lichens , algæ , and fungi . They open up a vast field of physiological re- search . They constitute a microcosm , an imperium in imperio , a strange minute world underlying this great world of sense and sight , which ...
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... known to us ; and for myriads of ages these extremely simple and minute plants may have represented the only idea of life on earth . But passing from conjecture to the domain of established truth , we know of a certainty that at least ...
... known to us ; and for myriads of ages these extremely simple and minute plants may have represented the only idea of life on earth . But passing from conjecture to the domain of established truth , we know of a certainty that at least ...
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... known is supposed to be a species of lycopodium closely resembling the common species of our moors . the upper beds of the Upper Silurian rocks , they are the only terrestrial plants yet found . In the lower Old Red Sandstone they also ...
... known is supposed to be a species of lycopodium closely resembling the common species of our moors . the upper beds of the Upper Silurian rocks , they are the only terrestrial plants yet found . In the lower Old Red Sandstone they also ...
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... known and interesting work , " Travels in Tartary , Thibet , and China , " by the French Lazarists Huc and Gabet , there is a long description of a very remarkable phenomenon called the " Tree of Ten Thou- sand Images , " found by them ...
... known and interesting work , " Travels in Tartary , Thibet , and China , " by the French Lazarists Huc and Gabet , there is a long description of a very remarkable phenomenon called the " Tree of Ten Thou- sand Images , " found by them ...
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... known to botanists - occurs in greater profusion and attains a larger size in tropical than in temperate countries . Many exotic , and one or two European lichens , occur on living leaves . These are principally developed on the upper ...
... known to botanists - occurs in greater profusion and attains a larger size in tropical than in temperate countries . Many exotic , and one or two European lichens , occur on living leaves . These are principally developed on the upper ...
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Page 64 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 78 - But here,— above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Page 113 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 12 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Page 121 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave.
Page 18 - Unfading as motionless, the worm frets them not, and the autumn wastes not. Strong in lowliness, they neither blanch in heat nor pine in frost.
Page 120 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones to teach them rest.
Page 86 - And spread th' enduring foliage ; — then we trace The freckled flower upon the flinty base ; These all increase, till in unnoticed years The stony tower as grey with age appears ; With coats of vegetation, thinly spread, Coat above coat, the living on the dead : These then dissolve to dust, and make a way For bolder...
Page 69 - ... after a minute examination of every detail, we could not discover the least deception. The characters all appeared to us portions of the leaf itself, equally with its veins and nerves ; the position was not the same in all ; in one leaf they would be at the top of the leaf; in another, in the middle ; in a third, at the base, or at the side ; the younger leaves represented the characters only in a partial state of formation.
Page 252 - Kamtschadales say, would disorder the stomach. It is sometimes eaten fresh in soups and sauces, and then loses much of its intoxicating property; when steeped in the juice of the berries of Vaccinium uliginosum, its effects are those of strong wine.