 | Edwin Lankester - 1864 - 1052 pages
...large-leaved plant first unfolding; when alive the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net. work of branches and branchlets, and sprigs of flowers. There are also solid coral hemispheres,... | |
 | Joseph Reay Greene - 1861 - 296 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... | |
 | Joseph Reay Greene - 1861 - 314 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... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1862 - 398 pages
...large-leaved plant first unfolding; when alive the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...vases and shrubbery, occasionally ten or even twenty feet in diameter, whose symmetrical surface is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald... | |
 | 1868 - 510 pages
...large-leaved plant first unfolding ; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...vases and shrubbery, occasionally ten or even twenty feet in diameter, whose symmetrical surface is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emeraldgreen.... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1868 - 154 pages
...resemble 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,...some of which are three or four feet in diameter, whose symmetrical surface is gorgeously decked with polyp stars of purple and emerald green. All the... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1876 - 442 pages
...large-leaved plant first unfolding; when alive the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...vases and shrubbery, occasionally ten or even twenty feet in diameter, whose symmetrical surface is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1876 - 396 pages
...large-leaved plant first unfolding; when alive the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...in diameter, made up of a network of branches and branehlets, and sprigs of flowers. There are also solid coral hemispheres, like domes, among the vases... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1892 - 588 pages
...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, and the...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... | |
 | 1901 - 214 pages
...largeCORAL FOUND IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. NATURE KNOWLEDGE. III. ing vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of branches and sprigs of flowers. 7. " There are also solid, coral hemispheres like domes among the vases and shrubbery,... | |
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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 branches and branchlets and sprigs of flowers. There are also solid coral hemispheres like domes among... 
