This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS. CONCLUSION. 92. Echoes of a miscellaneous character, and not strictly disposable under any of the preceding heads, are found in abundance. It is tirae, however, to draw these chapters to a close, adverting merely to some few of the most curious. Many plants, for example, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS. CONCLUSION. 92. Echoes of a miscellaneous character, and not strictly disposable under any of the preceding heads, are found in abundance. It is tirae, however, to draw these chapters to a close, adverting merely to some few of the most curious. Many plants, for example, in no wise related as to structure, are prone to propagate themselves by the production of young ones independently of the accustomed sexual process. These are called "viviparous," as producing their offspring ready hatched, so to speak, and alive, in contradistinction to the "oviparous" mode, that is to say, by seeds, or vegetable eggs. Not that they are exclusively viviparous, but that the viviparous method is superadded to the other, and that more or less of a preference is usually given to it. Sometimes it is for the purpose, so it would seem, of greater security of perpetuation, the plant growing naturally in bleak and stormy places, where the stamens and pistil might be hindered from fulfilling their functions. Such, for instance, might be thought the case with certain little viviparous saxifrages and grasses of the highland mountains; also with the subalpine Polygonum viviparum, and the Epilobium germascens, which grows VIVIPAROUS PLANTS. 115 upon the Caucasus, 2,400 feet above the sea level, haunting the margins of rivulets, just like the Mpilobium alpinum of North Wales and the Scotch highlands, but differing from the latter in producing axillary bulblets. But no such danger is experienced by the toothwort of the English woods, nor by the Bryophyllum of the Mauritius, nor by various plants of the lily and onion kind, nor by the sundews of the European morasses, nor by many kinds of fern, some of them indigenous to the tropics. Their...
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