A Popular History of British LichensLovell Reeve, 1856 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 14
... comparatively smooth , although it is liable to separate , as its age increases , in annular masses ; and it is ha- bited by Graphidea and Lecidea , while it is seldom or never the habitat of the Ramalinas , Usneas , Physcias , or Corni ...
... comparatively smooth , although it is liable to separate , as its age increases , in annular masses ; and it is ha- bited by Graphidea and Lecidea , while it is seldom or never the habitat of the Ramalinas , Usneas , Physcias , or Corni ...
Pàgina 16
... comparatively cir- cumscribed , but also comparatively unworked , though pro- mising , field of Lichenology , or the broader and more at- tractive region of general Natural History , its purpose will have been fully answered . Within ...
... comparatively cir- cumscribed , but also comparatively unworked , though pro- mising , field of Lichenology , or the broader and more at- tractive region of general Natural History , its purpose will have been fully answered . Within ...
Pàgina 17
... comparatively complete , though concise , view or account of the principal features of their natural history . Experience of the difficulty of procuring information upon , or access to lichenological literature has induced us to append ...
... comparatively complete , though concise , view or account of the principal features of their natural history . Experience of the difficulty of procuring information upon , or access to lichenological literature has induced us to append ...
Pàgina 18
... who did not possess suitable instruments for re- search , the microscope in particular having been rendered available in botanical science only within a comparatively recent period , ―speculation to a great extent took the CHAPTER IV.
... who did not possess suitable instruments for re- search , the microscope in particular having been rendered available in botanical science only within a comparatively recent period , ―speculation to a great extent took the CHAPTER IV.
Pàgina 29
... comparatively few monographs have been devoted to the subject - more particularly to the minute anatomy of native species - and the descriptions and arrangement of British Lichens , to be found in several general or special floras of ...
... comparatively few monographs have been devoted to the subject - more particularly to the minute anatomy of native species - and the descriptions and arrangement of British Lichens , to be found in several general or special floras of ...
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acid alpine Antarctic regions apothecia apothecium appear Arctic bark becoming blackish Botany British brownish cavity cells cellules Cetraria Islandica Char characters chiefly Cladonia COLLEMA colorific colouring matters common species Cornicularia cortical layer corticolous crustaceous Ditto elongated endospore exciple fertile filaments Flora foliaceous frequently fructification fruticulose genera genus globular gonidia granular growing habitat Highland hypothallus iodine irregular isidioid lacinia Lecanora Lecidea leprose Lichenology Lichens linear lowland and subalpine magnified margin medullary membranaceous minute moss mountains naked oblong occurs orchill ostiole paraphyses Parmelia parietina Peltigera Perithecium Physcia plants PLATE podetia pulverulent Pycnides Ramalina ramose ramules resemble rocks saxicolous section of apothecium section of thallus sessile simple sometimes soredia sorediiferous specimens spermatia spermo spermogones Sphærophoron spores squamules sterigmata and spermatia Sticta Sticta pulmonaria surface terminal thalamium thalline thallus theca thecæ thick tissue trees Umbilicarias Usnea usually varieties various vegetation VERRUCARIA vertical Vincent Brooks walls whitish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 227 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Pàgina 2 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Pàgina 77 - Seeds, to our eye invisible, will find On the rude rock the bed that fits their kind ; There, in the rugged soil, they safely dwell, Till showers and snows the subtle atoms swell, And spread th...
Pàgina 77 - 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 foliage, nursed by their decay : The long-enduring Ferns in time will all Die and depose their dust upon the wall ; Where the wing'd seed may rest, till many a flower Show Flora's triumph...
Pàgina 265 - They find the red cup-moss where they climb, And they chase the bee o'er the scented thyme ; And the rocks where the heath-flower blooms they know — Lady, kind lady, oh! let me go!
Pàgina 9 - In deep tranquillity. Not undelightful now to roam The wild heath sparkling on the sight ; Not undelightful now to pace The forest's ample rounds, And see the spangled branches shine, And mark the moss of many a hue That varies the old tree's brown bark, Or o'er the gray stone spreads.
Pàgina 77 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
Pàgina 197 - They often ride in invisible procession, when their presence is discovered by the shrill ringing of their bridles. On these occasions they sometimes borrow mortal steeds, and when such are found at morning, panting and fatigued in their...
Pàgina 93 - For time has soften'd what was harsh when new And now the stains are all of sober hue; The living stains which Nature's hand alone, Profuse of life, pours forth upon the stone...
Pàgina 5 - That not alone in trees and flowers The spirit bright of Beauty dwells — That not alone in lofty bowers The mighty hand of God is seen — But more triumphant still in things men count as mean LESSON XI.