- EAN13
- 9782386260681
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 05/03/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782386260681
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In the vegetable world, limits of growth and life are strangely diversified.
Multitudes of forms mature and perish in a few days or hours; while others,
whose beginning was in a remote antiquity, have survived the habitual period
of their kind, and still enjoy the luxuriance of their prime. Some species of
unicellular plants are so minute that millions occur in the bulk of a cubic
inch, and a flowering plant is described by Humboldt, which, when fully
developed, is not more than three-tenths of an inch in height. On the other
hand, we have the great Sequoia, whose mass is expressed by hundreds of tons,
and specimens of the Eucalyptus, growing in the gulches of Australia, surpass
in height the dome of St. Peter's...
Multitudes of forms mature and perish in a few days or hours; while others,
whose beginning was in a remote antiquity, have survived the habitual period
of their kind, and still enjoy the luxuriance of their prime. Some species of
unicellular plants are so minute that millions occur in the bulk of a cubic
inch, and a flowering plant is described by Humboldt, which, when fully
developed, is not more than three-tenths of an inch in height. On the other
hand, we have the great Sequoia, whose mass is expressed by hundreds of tons,
and specimens of the Eucalyptus, growing in the gulches of Australia, surpass
in height the dome of St. Peter's...
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