Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British flora

In the course of the preceding chapters a number of the more striking modifications displayed by the different organs of plants have been described briefly. Reference has been m...

All organisms, animal as well as vegetable, are at some period of their existence provided with an opportunity of migration. In the animal world, most land creatures have legs o...

The dependence of animals upon plants for the food by means of which they continue to inhabit the earth, which was pointed out on a previous page (75), shows that the plant worl...

The most important and fundamental difference between the animal and plant worlds is this: plants possess the power of manufacturing their food out of the inorganic materials of...

(_Pinguicula_), and Bladderworts (_Utricularia_) supply very interesting examples within our own flora, which anyone may study on a holiday spent on the moors or mountains. The...

“I got up the mountain edge, and from the top saw the world stretcht out, cornlands and forest, the river winding among meadow-flats, and right off, like a hem of the sky, the m...

The appearance of man upon the Earth is an event of very recent occurrence, not only in terrestrial history, but in the history of organic life in the world. In the life-story w...

“It is perhaps also proper to take into account the situation in which each plant naturally grows or does not grow. For this is an important distinction, and specially character...

In the preceding chapters glimpses have been obtained of some of the wider aspects of plant life, particularly as seen on the hills and plains of our own country. The species co...