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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 121

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, they cut loose from mother earth and live wholly on the host. Asa speculation it seems plausible that all parasites have arisen in this way.Some, like the mistletoe, having the power, at length, to have their seedsgerminate on the host-plant, have left their terrestrial origin in the… … the plants they attach themselves to. These are usually destitute of greencolor. The Indian pipe, snow plant of the Pacific Coast, and Squaw root ofthe Eastern States are examples ; the former called ghost-flower from its. pale-ness. These plants have little carbonaceous matter in their structure,…

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