"Aquatic plant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attempts which have at last shown me the right road, I place at their disposal two kinds of materials, possessing opposite qualities; the supple and the firm, the soft and the hard. On the one hand, we have a live aquatic plant, such as watercress, for instance, or ombrelle d'eau, having at its base a tufty bunch of fine white roots about as thick as a horsehair. In these soft tresses, the caddis worm, which observes a vegetarian diet, ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... situation of all the forces, with the figure in which they lie, with the disposition of Rhesus and the Thracians, with the posture of his chariot and horses. The marshy spot of ground where Dolon is killed, the tamarisk, or aquatic plant upon which they hung his spoils, and the reeds that are heaped together to mark the place, are circumstances the most ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... This aquatic plant invariably grows in either dead water or in the most sluggish stream, and none existed in the part of the river at N. lat. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... companion to the Wardian Case has lately been presented in the Aquatic Plant Case, or Parlour Aquarium, due to the ingenuity of Mr Warington, and which has for its object, as its name indicates, the cultivation of aquatic or water plants. It may be described as a combination of the Wardian Case and the gold-fish ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 - Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 • Various
... some of the green aquatic plant, as this serves to keep the fish healthy, and makes it unnecessary to ...
— Joe Strong, the Boy Fish - or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank • Vance Barnum |
