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... plant is not unfrequently to be seen in hothouses in Britain . The name ELEPHANT'S FOOT ( Elephantopus ) is also given , on account of the form of the root- leaves , to a genus of plants of the natural order Composite , sub - order ...
... plant is not unfrequently to be seen in hothouses in Britain . The name ELEPHANT'S FOOT ( Elephantopus ) is also given , on account of the form of the root- leaves , to a genus of plants of the natural order Composite , sub - order ...
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... PLANTS , or ENDOGENS ( Gr . endon , within , and genos , birth or origin ) , one of the great classes into which the vegetable kingdom is divided , the others receiving the corre- sponding designations of Exogenous Plants and Acrogenous ...
... PLANTS , or ENDOGENS ( Gr . endon , within , and genos , birth or origin ) , one of the great classes into which the vegetable kingdom is divided , the others receiving the corre- sponding designations of Exogenous Plants and Acrogenous ...
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... plant . The bursting of the capsules of some kinds of plants is owing to a process of endosmose going on in the cells , as in the fruit of the Elaterium or Squirting Cucumber . Some of the Entozoa , as tape - worms , seem to live ...
... plant . The bursting of the capsules of some kinds of plants is owing to a process of endosmose going on in the cells , as in the fruit of the Elaterium or Squirting Cucumber . Some of the Entozoa , as tape - worms , seem to live ...
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... plant ) , a term usually employed to denote those parasitic plants which grow on living animals . It is seldom extended to vegetable para- sites which grow on living vegetables , whether on external or internal parts , nor is it ...
... plant ) , a term usually employed to denote those parasitic plants which grow on living animals . It is seldom extended to vegetable para- sites which grow on living vegetables , whether on external or internal parts , nor is it ...
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... plants which produce seeds or spores more abundantly than some of them do ; the growth of the plants themselves is very rapid , and repro- duction is ' very intense and rapid . ' It has sometimes been imagined that epidemic diseases may ...
... plants which produce seeds or spores more abundantly than some of them do ; the growth of the plants themselves is very rapid , and repro- duction is ' very intense and rapid . ' It has sometimes been imagined that epidemic diseases may ...
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