 Sabine* from Valparaiso, but that they form a variety which by some botanists has been considered as specifically distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of Central Chili, where a drop of rain does not fall...  Nature - Page 240edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chile, where a drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these southern islands. In the central parts of the Chonos Archipelago... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 pages
...distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chile, where a drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these Southern Islands. VIRGINIA CORRESPONDENCE. December 21, 1846.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...has been considered as specifically distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chili, where a...drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these southern islands." The vine, Vitis vinifera, now naturalised in... | |
 | william blackwood - 1849 - 764 pages
...has been considered as specifically distinct. It is remarkable that the game plant should be found on the sterile mountains of Central Chili, where a drop of rain does not full for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these Southern islands.* The potato is... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1851 - 216 pages
...distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chile, where a drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of those southern islands." The localities in which Statice, Armeria and... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp, Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 370 pages
...botanists has been considered specifically distinct It is remarkable that the Bame plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chili, where a...drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these southern islands." Darwin's "Journal of Researches," Vol. II.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...has been considered as specifically distinct. It is remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of central Chili, where a...drop of rain does not fall for more than six months, and within the damp forests of these southern islands." The vine, Vitis vinifera, now naturalised in... | |
 | mrs. William Paterson - 1872 - 90 pages
...again to resort to the original stock, "The Wild Potato, from central Chili," on the highest mountains, where a drop of rain does not fall for more than six months ; or from the Chenos Archipelago, where they grow on the sandy soil by the seaside, and thrive as far... | |
 | 1873 - 734 pages
...indigenous ; they grow as far south as lat. 50 degs. It รน remarkable that the same plant should be found on the sterile mountains of Central Chili, where a drop of rain does not fall for six months, and also within the damp forests of these southern islands. From this it appears that the... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1888 - 860 pages
...is considered to originate, is said to be a plant of the High Andes of Chili, and surely a plant of the sterile mountains of Central Chili, where a drop of rain does not fall for six months of the year, and where, as compared with the northern hemisphere, summer and winter are... | |
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