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botanist
1. Had some intrepid botanist trudged the weary path, he or she would have eventually reached the mount, and had the mist dispersed they would have spied in the mounts lee a large green hollow ringed with hedges and 'Dingles House' which its red brick and slate roof set in a substantial garden beautifully landscaped with all manner of tall trees, shrubs and lawns
2. He resides in Geneva, Illinois, and works as a botanist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle
3. She had intended to get a doctorate and perhaps be a botanist or science writer, if not an academic doing research
4. He was a poet, grammarian, author, orator, physician, soldier, scientist, botanist, and astrologer
5. Gregor Mendel the 19th century Austrian botanist and monk, spent many hours in his monastery’s garden daydreaming and looking at the beautiful and different colours of the sweet-pea flowers, when an extraordinary connection became apparent to him: he noticed that the appearance of the different colours appeared to be linked and related to simple mathematical progression
6. I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but I’m the best botanist on the planet
7. After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog
8. And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it
9. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee’s existence
10. These historians resemble a botanist who, having noticed that some plants grow from seeds producing two cotyledons, should insist that all that grows does so by sprouting into two leaves, and that the palm, the mushroom, and even the oak, which blossom into full growth and no longer resemble two leaves, are deviations from the theory
11. He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener
12. —"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" On the following day, M
13. Only a small selection of the world’s many plants can be described and illustrated here and only a specialist botanist could identify more than a handful of plants in far-flung corners of the world
14. This will perhaps be made more fully apparent by an illustration; we may suppose that a botanist found two well-marked varieties (and such occur) of the long-styled form of the trimorphic Lythrum salicaria, and that he determined to try by crossing whether they were specifically distinct
15. This principle has been broadly confessed by some naturalists to be the true one; and by none more clearly than by that excellent botanist, Aug
16. This celebrated botanist ascertained that it was a new genus, to which he gave the name of a German botanist, (Floerke) and published it in the third volume of the transactions of the society des Curieux de la Nature of Berlin, for 1801, under the name of Floerkea proserpinacoides, which long and uncouth specific name has been changed by every subsequent author
17. I will show presently which among them appear to be wrong; but I must notice before, that no botanist had, I believe, endeavoured to class it naturally, until Mr
18. The first name that will occur to you, I am sure, is that of our genial botanist, the late Professor Bentley, who was president at Nottingham in 1866 and Dundee in 1867
