First, you will be interested if you study the coal flora, with the abundance, beauty, and variety of the ferns.

The way to begin will be; to compare the flora and fauna of this part of England very carefully with that of the southern and eastern counties; and then to compare them again with the fauna and flora of France, Belgium, and Holland.

Then, I suppose, there will be few left, even among botanists, to deplore the vanished primeval flora.

At the outset you will soon find yourself involved in chemical and meteorological questions; as, for instance, when you askHow is it that I find one flora on the sea-shore, another on the sandstone, another on the chalk, and another on the peat-making gravelly strata?

They had grown these foreign flora many years before they made sprout a single shoot of Christianity.

'If you were to go down on your knees,' I said, 'I could not find time to read up the flora of the West Indies and finish an article before morning.'

As regards the flora the elevated position of parts of the county makes it the home of a number of plants which do not commonly occur in the South of England.

The Cretan summer for three or four months is rainless, and a valley where the vegetation is fed by the springs so abundantly as to sustain a perpetual flora is rarely to be met in one's travels there.

Ball gives the village an elevation of 4,048 feet above the level of the sea; and one of the parish priestsan intelligent old man who has devoted many years of his life to collecting the flora of the Ampezzoassured me that he had never known the thermometer drop so low as fifteen degrees of frost in even the coldest winters.

It was, however, she feared, more to torment Dick, than because she found Wesley to her liking, that the little maid often carried the moody captain off into the garden, pretending to teach him the varied flora of that blooming domain.