| William Baird - 1858 - 642 pagina’s
...bottom. It is this property that is likely to make it injurious to the drainage. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant Is disturbed, fragments are broken off, each of which is capable of becoming an independent plant. Its powers of increase are thus prodigious.... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 650 pagina’s
...egg-shaped at the point, and beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant is disturbed,...order to their increase, to be rooted in the bottom CM- sides of the river or drain in which they are found; but this is independent altogether of that... | |
| Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pagina’s
...egg-shaped at the point, and beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant is disturbed fragments are broken off. Although at present it cannot propagate itself by seed, its powers of increase are prodigious, as every... | |
| 1867 - 276 pagina’s
...egg-shaped at the point, and ; beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant is disturbed fragments are broken off. Although at present it cannot propagate itself by seed, its powers of increase are prodigious, as every... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1868 - 750 pagina’s
...curious. The leaves are beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling; and every fragment broken off is capable of becoming an independent plant, producing...extending itself indefinitely in every direction. Most water plants require roots; but this is independent altogether of that condition, and actually grows... | |
| John Stoughton - 1868 - 352 pagina’s
...curious. The leaves are beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling ; and every fragment broken off is capable of becoming an independent plant, producing...extending itself indefinitely in every direction. Most water-plants require roots ; but this is independent altogether of that condition, and actually grows... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1868 - 114 pagina’s
...very pretty it looks with its brilliant green leaves. " Most of our water-plants," writes Mr. Hogg, " require, in order to their increase, to be rooted in the bottom or sides of the river in which they are found ; but this flourishes altogether independent of that condition, and actually... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1869 - 814 pagina’s
...egg-shaped at the point, and beset with minute teeth, which cause them to cling. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant is disturbed,...sides of the river or drain in which they are found; hut this is independent altogether of that condition, and actually grows as it travels slowly down... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 564 pagina’s
...very pretty it looks with its brilliant green leaves. " Most of our water-plants," writes Mr. Hogg, " require, in order to their increase, to be rooted in the bottom or sides of the river in which they are found ; but this flourishes altogether independent of that condition, and actually... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 pagina’s
...egg-shaped at the point, and beset with miaute, teeth, which cause them io cliag. The stems are very brittle, so that whenever the plant is disturbed, fragments are broken off. Although, at present, it cannot propagate itself by seed (all the flowers being male)- its powers of... | |
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