Nereis Australis, Or Algae of the Southern Ocean: Being Figures and Descriptions of Marine Plants, Collected on the Shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the Extra-tropical Australian Colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic Regions; Deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University

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Reeve, 1847 - 124 Seiten
 

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Seite 230 - History of British Sea-Weeds ' we can most faithfully recommend for its scientific, its pictorial, and its popular value ; the professed botanist will find it a work of the highest character, whilst those who desire merely to know the names and history of the lovely plants which they gather on the sea-shore, will find in it, when complete, the faithful portraiture of every one of them.
Seite 158 - ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY, comprising Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of interest and novelty indigenous to Britain. By Mrs. TJ HUSSEY.
Seite 230 - The descriptions of the plants in this work are carefully drawn up, and much interesting matter, critical, explanatory, and historical, is added in the form of notes. The drawings of the plants are admirably executed by Mr. Fitch ; and we know of no productions from his pencil, or, in fact, any botanical illustrations at all, that are superior in faithful representation and botanical correctness.
Seite 46 - 12 to 18 inches in length, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch " or more in diameter. Combined with the usual sweetness of " liquurice root, this variety has a feebly bitter taste.
Seite 230 - Algce, we know not if we can pay it a higher compliment than by saying it is worthy of the author. It should be observed that the work is not a selection of certain species, but an arranged system of all that is known of Australian Alga:, accompanied by figures of the new and rare ones, especially of those most remarkable for beauty of form and colour.

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