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Scientific American, Vol. 40, No. 6 (1879) (1879)

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as the ferns are; green moths. Many species of beetles of large size and the green parts of plants can or do absorb moisture by their sur- most brilliant metallic luster also abound, almost all of the and if the base of the plants be examined with the micro- faces, as rain and condensed dew and… … Very often this opposition re- undergoes a strange moditica- sulted in a long and stern fight, tion. In its incipient state it is in which the larve were often an aggregation of numberless flower buds, which in ordinary course would be developed vapor, has been a subject of controversy for the last…

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