 ... surely is a little strange. Occasionally the author's outbursts are rather amusing. After telling the "life stories "of Ferns, Mosses and Mushrooms, he says : "Some will tell you that such interesting plants as the ferns, mosses and puff-balls are...  First Studies of Plant Life - Page 221by George Francis Atkinson - 1901 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Biology - 1901 - 1082 pages
...the ferns, mosses, mushrooms, and puffballs are cryptogams, and that therefore you should not try to read the stories they have to tell. But why call them...blotted out of the English language. Why not call them plants, as they are ? They are just as much God's creatures as the dandelion and thistle and smartweed... | |
 | Biology - 1901 - 534 pages
...the ferns, mosses, mushrooms, and puffballs are cryptogams, and that therefore you should not try to read the stories they have to tell. But why call them...blotted out of the English language. Why not call them plants, as they are ? They are just as much God's creatures as the dandelion and thistle and smartweed... | |
 | Sir Arthur George Tansley - Botany - 1902 - 546 pages
...plants as the ferns, mosses and puff-balls are cryptogams, and that therefore you should not try to read the stories they have to tell. But why call them...blotted out of the English language. Why not call them plants, as they are ? They are just as much God's creatures as the dandelion and thistle and smartweed.... | |
 | Sir Arthur George Tansley - Botany - 1903 - 316 pages
...plants as the ferns, mosses and puff-balls are eryptogams, and that therefore you should not try to read the stories they have to tell. But why call them...blotted out of the English language. Why not call them plants, as they are? They are just as much God's creatures as the dandelion and thistle and smartweed.... | |
 | Sir Arthur George Tansley - Botany - 1903 - 290 pages
...plants as the ferns, mosses and puff-balls are cryptogams, and that therefore you should not try to read the stories they have to tell. But why call them...blotted out of the English language. Why not call them plants, as they are? They are just as much God's creatures as the dandelion and thistle and smartweed.... | |
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