 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pagina’s
...and vascular structure ; some representing green leaves, and others those that are dry and withereda. Nay, sometimes this mimicry is so exquisite, that...whole insect for a portion of the branching spray of a treeb. No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctation of their stems and leaves,... | |
 | George Samouelle - 1819 - 532 pagina’s
...in their form, substance, and vascular structure; some representing green leaves, and others thoss that are dry and withered. Nay, sometimes this mimicry...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree. No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctation of their stems and leaves, and... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pagina’s
...artificial vrings, so exactly do they resemble them in their form, substance, and vascular structure; some representing green leaves, and others those that...that you would mistake the whole insect for a portion ' Myriads of creatures (each too nicely small * Bare sense to reach) for onr inspection call. In animalcules,... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pagina’s
...bulky raau. A world of beauties ! that thro* all their fame Creation'* grandest miracles proclaim. are dry and withered. Nay, sometimes this mimicry...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree.* No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctuation of their stems and leaves, and... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pagina’s
...xxii. xxr. &c. and of San'Jties. Reaum. v. /. xii. /. 7, 8— 1 4. substance, and vascular structure; some representing green leaves, and others those that...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree b. No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctuation of their stems and leaves,... | |
 | George Robert Gray - 1835 - 90 pagina’s
...artificial wings, so exactly do they resemble them in their form, substance, and vascular structure ; some representing green leaves, and others those that...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree." " I have one from Brazil," says one of the same authors, " eight inches long, that, unless it was seen... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 332 pagina’s
...artificial wings, so exactly do they resemble them in their form, substance, and vascular structure ; some representing green leaves, and others those that...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree." There are also some other species, which are wingless, and therefore called walking-sticks. Throughout... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pagina’s
...and vascular structure ; some representing green leaves, and others those that are dry and withered.3 Nay, sometimes this mimicry is so exquisite, that...whole insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree.4 No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctuation of their stems and leaves,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pagina’s
...substance, and vascular structure ; some representing green leaves, and others those that are dried and withered ; nay, sometimes this mimicry is so exquisite,...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree." There are also some other species, which are wingless, and therefore called walking-sticks. Throughout... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pagina’s
...and vascular structure ; some representing greer leaves, and others those that are dry and withered.1 Nay, sometimes this mimicry is so exquisite, that...insect for a portion of the branching spray of a tree." No mean beauty in some plants arises from the fluting and punctuation of their stems and leaves, and... | |
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... upon beholding some insects, that they had robbed the trees of their leaves to form for themselves artificial wings, so exactly do they resemble them in their form, substance, and vascular structure; some representing green leaves, and others thoss... 
