Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . uge branches | in ;i horizontal direction, or banana flowers. that can lift or overturn huge rocks, or split them apart asthe lightning rifts a tree trunk, is yet unknown. On the opposite page is anillustration of a circumstance frequently observed, wherein even a delicateroot fibre can pierce a
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . uge branches | in ;i horizontal direction, or banana flowers. that can lift or overturn huge rocks, or split them apart asthe lightning rifts a tree trunk, is yet unknown. On the opposite page is anillustration of a circumstance frequently observed, wherein even a delicateroot fibre can pierce a potato or other structures. Possibly the greatest botanical advance of the century is in relation toeryptogamic plants, those low organisms which as mildews and moulds aremost familiar to people generally. As microscopes increase in power, newforms are discovered. Over forty thousand species have already been described,and we may fairly say that there are nearly half as many forms of vegetablelife invisible to the naked eye as can be seen by our unaided visual wants and behaviors are very much the same as in the flowering plantsor higher orders, as they are usually termed. But there is one great differencein this, that they feed mainly on nitrogen, and have no use for carbon. They. STORY OF PLANT AND FLOWER 113
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