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Freaks and marvels of plant life : or, Curiosities of vegetation.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1882 Cooke
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant physiology.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1882.
- Physical Description:
- 463 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1882?]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The sundews
- Venus's fly-trap
- Side-saddle flowers
- Pitcher-plants
- Minor Carnivora
- Gyration of plants
- Heliotropes, or sunflowers
- Twiners and climbers
- Sensitive plants
- Sleep of plants
- Meteoric flowers
- Hygroscopism
- Dispersion
- Mimicry
- Giants
- Temperature
- Luminosity
- Mystic plants
- Flowers of history.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with title in gold and a picture of a unique plant on the front cover.
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on t.p.: "Recd May 5, 1882."
- OCLC:
- 2996520
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