| 1851 - 510 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of... | |
| 1856 - 606 pages
...abundant — shrubbery, tufts of rushes, the oddlyshaped cactuses, beds of pinks, feathery mosses, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the fungus, in all its varieties, have each their representatives ; while here and there stately masses of madrepore rise to a height of six... | |
| 1852 - 446 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of... | |
| 1852 - 422 pages
...some large leaved plant just unfolding ; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net work... | |
| 1852 - 450 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of... | |
| 1852 - 460 pages
...some largeleaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of... | |
| 1852 - 386 pages
...some large leaved plant just unfolding ; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net work... | |
| 1852 - 436 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding. When alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polypi flowers. The cactus — the lichen clinging to the rock — and the fungus in all its varieties,!) ave their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully... | |
| James Dwight Dana - 1853 - 152 pages
...some large-leaved plant just unfolding : when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock,...Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 pages
...abundant — shrubbery, tufts of rushes, the oddlyshaped cactuses, beds of pinks, feathery mosses, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the fungus, in all its varieties, have each their representatives ; while here and there stately masses of madrepore rise to a height of six... | |
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