We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay, variously blotched, and mildewed, and pierced with holes, and in many cases irregularly covered with powdery black dots, gathered... Views on Vexed Questions - Seite 42von William Wirt Kinsley - 1881 - 380 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1872 - 882 Seiten
...come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves iu every stage of decay, variously blotched and mildewed...grow on dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinkat first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." J The bee, fly,... | |
| 1872 - 832 Seiten
...says of the leaf-butterfly, " we come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...grow on dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinkat first sight that the butiertlies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." l The bee, fly,... | |
| 1880 - 1118 Seiten
...In a certain leaf butterfly we come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...dead leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinking • Or. oit., p. 64. at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi.... | |
| 1867 - 850 Seiten
...the venation of a leaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...avoid thinking at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi. But this resemblance, close as it is, would be of little'... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 458 Seiten
...the venation of a loaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...powdery black dots gathered into patches and spots, BO closely resembling the various kinds of minute fungi that grow on dead leaves that it is impossible... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 Seiten
...leaf butterfly, he says : l " We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...avoid thinking at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Here imitation has attained a development which seems... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 Seiten
...leaf-butterfly, he says : " We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...avoid thinking, at first sight, that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Upon these passages our author remarks : " Here imitation... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 Seiten
...the venation of a leaf. We come now to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...avoid thinking at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi. But this resemblance, close as it is, would be of little... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 Seiten
...leaf butterfly, he says:1 "We come to a still more extraordinary part of the imitation, for we find representations of leaves in every stage of decay,...leaves, that it is impossible to avoid thinking at tirst sight that the butterflies themselves have been attacked by real fungi." Here imitation has attained... | |
| Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1871 - 344 Seiten
...butterfly, not only in the healthy condition, but also in " every stage of decay, blotched, mildewed, pierced with holes, and in many cases irregularly...avoid thinking at first sight that the butterflies themselves have been attached by real fungi ; * — Or whether, as in the Heliconidae, any power be... | |
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