 | Great Britain - 1877 - 938 pages
...explanation may have been the fact,—that some plants secrete honey on other parts besides the flowers. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true...acacia, which, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant, which uses the leaves, not directly for food, but, according to Mr.... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - Botany - 1878 - 402 pages
...additional source of intellectual gratification. Thus, Mr. Belt, in his work on Nicaragua aforementioned, describes a South American species of Acacia, which, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant, which uses the leaves, not directly for food, but, according to Mr.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1879 - 250 pages
...explanation may have been the fact, — that some plants secrete honey on other parts than the flowers. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra floral nectaries.1 The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species 1 I by no means,... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1879 - 316 pages
...or at the base of their leaf-stalks, of which Sir John Lubbock gives the following account : — " Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra-floral nectaries. The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species... | |
 | Grant Allen - Art - 1879 - 308 pages
...or at the base of their leaf-stalks, of which Sir John Lubbock gives the following account : — " Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra-floral nectaries. The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species... | |
 | John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - Natural history - 1882 - 244 pages
...some plants (as, for instance, the Common Laurel) secrete honey on other parts than the flowers. 4. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra-floral nectaries.* The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Botany - 1886 - 168 pages
...explanation, may have been the fact, that some plants secrete honey on other parts than the flowers. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra floral nectaries.1 The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species of Acacia :... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1890 - 382 pages
...explanation may have been the fact, — that some plants secrete honey on other parts than the flowers. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra-floral nectaries.1 The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Botany - 1894 - 176 pages
...explanation, may have been the fact, that some plants secrete honey on other parts than the flowers. Belt and Delpino have, I think, suggested the true function of these extra floral nectaries. 1 The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species of Acacia : this tree,... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Conduct of life - 1895 - 440 pages
...insects. A very curious sort of protection is related by Sir John Lubbockr— "In South America there is a species of Acacia, which if unprotected is apt to...stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant, which uses them not directly for food, but to grow mushrooms on. The Acacia, however, bears hollow thorns, while... | |
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I think, suggested the true function of these extra floral nectaries. The former of these excellent observers describes a South American species of acacia, which, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant, which uses the... 
