The Elements of Botany ...: Being a Translation of the Philosophia Botanica, and Other Treatises of the Celebrated Linnµus. to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Wherein Are Described Some Plants Lately Found in Norfolk and Suffolk
The Elements of Botany ...: Being a Translation of the Philosophia Botanica, and Other Treatises of the Celebrated Linnµus. to Which Is Added, an Appendix, Wherein Are Described Some Plants Lately Found in Norfolk and Suffolk
Excerpt: ...every week of its early growth, and may in time produce a huge amount of vegetable matter, it is still to be asked what this vegetable matter is, where it came from, and by what means plants are able to increase and accumulate it, and build it up into the fabric of herbs and shrubs and lofty trees. 396. Protoplasm. All this fabric was built up under life, but only a small portion of it is at any one time alive. As growth proceeds, life is passed on from the old to the new parts, much as it has passed on from ...
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Excerpt: ...every week of its early growth, and may in time produce a huge amount of vegetable matter, it is still to be asked what this vegetable matter is, where it came from, and by what means plants are able to increase and accumulate it, and build it up into the fabric of herbs and shrubs and lofty trees. 396. Protoplasm. All this fabric was built up under life, but only a small portion of it is at any one time alive. As growth proceeds, life is passed on from the old to the new parts, much as it has passed on from parent to offspring, from generation to generation in unbroken continuity. Protoplasm is the common name of that plant-stuff in which life essentially resides. All growth depends upon it; for it has the peculiar power of growing and multiplying and building up a living structure,
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