A Popular History of British LichensLovell Reeve, 1856 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... seen ; But more triumphant still in things men count as mean . One of the most celebrated of recent continental licheno- logists , Scherer , has appended to his latest work the follow- ing expressive quotation from Cicero : - " Hæc ...
... seen ; But more triumphant still in things men count as mean . One of the most celebrated of recent continental licheno- logists , Scherer , has appended to his latest work the follow- ing expressive quotation from Cicero : - " Hæc ...
Pàgina 39
... seen to consist of modifications of two forms of simple cell , —the spherical or rounded , which by pressure becomes hexagonal , polygonal , oblong , or irregular in different species ; GENERAL CHARACTERS OF BRITISH LICHENS . 39.
... seen to consist of modifications of two forms of simple cell , —the spherical or rounded , which by pressure becomes hexagonal , polygonal , oblong , or irregular in different species ; GENERAL CHARACTERS OF BRITISH LICHENS . 39.
Pàgina 45
... seen in Le- cidea geographica in the form of a black dendritic radiating fringe , surrounding the yellowish - green thallus . When this species grows on pure milk - white quartz , as it frequently does on our Scotch mountains , this ...
... seen in Le- cidea geographica in the form of a black dendritic radiating fringe , surrounding the yellowish - green thallus . When this species grows on pure milk - white quartz , as it frequently does on our Scotch mountains , this ...
Pàgina 48
... seen a thin layer of green gonidia . This colouring matter is in many species easily extracted by boiling water , and other solvents , and has been abundantly applied by the peasantry of Scotland , and other countries , in their house ...
... seen a thin layer of green gonidia . This colouring matter is in many species easily extracted by boiling water , and other solvents , and has been abundantly applied by the peasantry of Scotland , and other countries , in their house ...
Pàgina 50
... seen , are more or less intimately united to the bodies on which they grow ; the surface of the latter is frequently pierced or broken up by the tissues of the Lichen , -nay , the hardest calcareous rock , the smoothest quartz , is ...
... seen , are more or less intimately united to the bodies on which they grow ; the surface of the latter is frequently pierced or broken up by the tissues of the Lichen , -nay , the hardest calcareous rock , the smoothest quartz , is ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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.