The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 502 pages |
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... flora , both the Gymnogens and Acrogens are largely developed , with a very puzzling inter- mediate class , that , while they attained to the. CONIFER OF THE LOWER OLD RED SANDSTONE . OSMUNDA REGALIS . ( Royal Fern . ) HISTORY OF PLANTS .
... flora , both the Gymnogens and Acrogens are largely developed , with a very puzzling inter- mediate class , that , while they attained to the. CONIFER OF THE LOWER OLD RED SANDSTONE . OSMUNDA REGALIS . ( Royal Fern . ) HISTORY OF PLANTS .
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... Flora of even the Old Red is but meagre and poor ; and you will perhaps permit me to lighten this part of my subject , which threat- ens too palpably to partake of the poverty of that with which it deals , by a simple illustration . We ...
... Flora of even the Old Red is but meagre and poor ; and you will perhaps permit me to lighten this part of my subject , which threat- ens too palpably to partake of the poverty of that with which it deals , by a simple illustration . We ...
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... flora of the Silurian System , from the first appearance of organisms in its nether beds , to its bone- bed of the Upper Ludlow rocks , in which the Lycopodites first appear , so in the Acrogens of that moor , with its solitary ...
... flora of the Silurian System , from the first appearance of organisms in its nether beds , to its bone- bed of the Upper Ludlow rocks , in which the Lycopodites first appear , so in the Acrogens of that moor , with its solitary ...
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... flora , I shall make but one other remark . The existing plants whence we derive our analogies in dealing with the vegetation of this early period , contribute but little , if at all , to the support of animal life . The ferns and their ...
... flora , I shall make but one other remark . The existing plants whence we derive our analogies in dealing with the vegetation of this early period , contribute but little , if at all , to the support of animal life . The ferns and their ...
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... flora may have covered the dry land with its mantle of cheerful green , and served its general purposes , chemical and others , in the well - balanced economy of nature ; but the herb - eating animals would have fared but ill even where ...
... flora may have covered the dry land with its mantle of cheerful green , and served its general purposes , chemical and others , in the well - balanced economy of nature ; but the herb - eating animals would have fared but ill even where ...
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