The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 103National Geographic Society, 1953 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 122
... leaves may attain a length of two feet . When the leaf becomes large and saillike , air slots open in its sides , allowing winds to pass through without blowing the leaf off the vine . Botanists used to call the plant Pothos aureus ...
... leaves may attain a length of two feet . When the leaf becomes large and saillike , air slots open in its sides , allowing winds to pass through without blowing the leaf off the vine . Botanists used to call the plant Pothos aureus ...
Page 605
... leaves are partly filled with rain water , and a diges- tive material is added by glands in the leaves . Attracted by the red - mottled leaf tips and Eliot F. Porter the nectar the plant secretes there , insects crawl down into the ...
... leaves are partly filled with rain water , and a diges- tive material is added by glands in the leaves . Attracted by the red - mottled leaf tips and Eliot F. Porter the nectar the plant secretes there , insects crawl down into the ...
Page 617
... Leaves at ground level around the base form the trap . When an insect alights or crawls upon a leaf , it touches one or more of three sensitive trigger hairs on each side of the leaf's midrib . This touch sends a stimulus to the midrib ...
... Leaves at ground level around the base form the trap . When an insect alights or crawls upon a leaf , it touches one or more of three sensitive trigger hairs on each side of the leaf's midrib . This touch sends a stimulus to the midrib ...
Contents
Nevada Learns to Live with the Atom While Blasts Teach Civilians | vii |
Report from the Locust Wars From Africa to India Men Fight an Ancient | viii |
HappyGoLucky Trinidad and Tobago Britains Caribbean | xvi |
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