Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Zväzok 15,Časť 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Strana 2
... these cells are conftantly filled with a thin watery liquor . They are generally of a spherical figure ; though in fome roots , as the buglofs and dandelion , they are oblong . In many roots , as the horse - radifh , peony , afparagus ...
... these cells are conftantly filled with a thin watery liquor . They are generally of a spherical figure ; though in fome roots , as the buglofs and dandelion , they are oblong . In many roots , as the horse - radifh , peony , afparagus ...
Strana 3
... These insertions are mostly in the form of rays , tending to the centre of the pith , which are easily discernible by the eye in a transverse section of moft roots . Thefe infertions , like the bark , confift of many veffels , moftly of ...
... These insertions are mostly in the form of rays , tending to the centre of the pith , which are easily discernible by the eye in a transverse section of moft roots . Thefe infertions , like the bark , confift of many veffels , moftly of ...
Strana 4
... these veffels as they exift in the leaf before they are ftretched out . 5. Of the Flower . ] It is needlefs here to mention any thing of the texture , or of the veffels , & c . of flowers , as they are pretty similar to thofe of the ...
... these veffels as they exift in the leaf before they are ftretched out . 5. Of the Flower . ] It is needlefs here to mention any thing of the texture , or of the veffels , & c . of flowers , as they are pretty similar to thofe of the ...
Strana 5
... these fmall bags are many hundreds of bladders , compofed of extreme ly minute fibres . Thefe bladders contain the acid juice of the lemon . Fig . 12. a longitudinal fection of a lemon . A AA , CCCXCV . the rind with the veffels which ...
... these fmall bags are many hundreds of bladders , compofed of extreme ly minute fibres . Thefe bladders contain the acid juice of the lemon . Fig . 12. a longitudinal fection of a lemon . A AA , CCCXCV . the rind with the veffels which ...
Strana 9
... these two parts of the creation are a kind of counterbalance to one another ; and the noxious parts or excrements of the one prove falutary food to the other . Thus , from the animal body conti- nually pafs off certain effluvia , which ...
... these two parts of the creation are a kind of counterbalance to one another ; and the noxious parts or excrements of the one prove falutary food to the other . Thus , from the animal body conti- nually pafs off certain effluvia , which ...
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