Volume 3

A report on the progress of vegetable physiology during the year 1837 ... / Translated from the German by William Francis.

  • Franz Meyen
Date:
1839
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Credit: A report on the progress of vegetable physiology during the year 1837 ... / Translated from the German by William Francis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plant to that celebrated Society, that at least one fact might be established, viz. that this plant had never been sessile. Now although this point was very easy to decide on the specimen sent, yet a learned member of the Academy, evidently without examining the specimen, supposes nevertheless that it may have been torn loose. After the establishment of this fact, that the floating perfect fuci in the Sargazzo sea have not been sessile, we arrive at the question, whence then have the seeds of this plant come? But this question also is not difficult to answer if we consider the powerful currents which prevail in and about this sea, especially as we know that the sessile specimens of the Sar- gassum natans on the American coast, and probably on the coasts of the Azores, &c., bear fruit. THE END. ERRATUM. Page 52, 3rd line from bottom, for flower read flower-stalk. PRINTED BY RICHARD AND JOHN E. TAYLOR, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.
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