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...Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered in Maine; a most important series of 2609 plants of eastern arctic Canada; 698 finely preserved and botanically significant plants of the alpine...
...were not for the birds," said Fletcher, "we would have no flora and consequently no animal food. For on a typical apple tree the female gypsy moth lays 500 eggs. Each of the moths from these eggs lay 500 more eggs, and in a few years there are literally millions of caterpillars, even allowing for a fifty per cent mortality...
...rather unorthodoxly in a jumble of gurgles, splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
...empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little drama to some sort of climax during the six hours ashore. The cast of British types has Flora Robson, Leslie Banks at its head...
...gift, the exact amount of which has not yet been determined, was made to the President and Fellows of the College in addition to a large number of books and papers on Alpine flora...