How To Use Conferva In A Sentence
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Known as far back as 400 B.C.E. Greece, comfrey is an extraordinary plant whose name derives from the Latin conferva, meaning "water plant healer.
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Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Et fi qualiter fuperius legitur, a nos vobis non fuerit adimpletum & con - fervatum, & deb alio toco ad babitandum, promittimus nos, qui ita fi* nos non confervaverit, una eum noflris heredibus componere tibi & fuccefforibus tuis attri Soledos viginti/
Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italic
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The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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A clammy conferva covers everything except the mosaics upon tribune, roof, and clerestory, which defy the course of age.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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At the latter end of last season, as was formerly noticed, the beacon was painted white, and from the bleaching of the weather and the sprays of the sea the upper parts were kept clean; but within the range of the tide the principal beams were observed to be thickly coated with a green stuff, the conferva of botanists.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers; but this cannot happen from anything like voluntary action with the ovules, or the confervae, nor is it probable among the infusoria.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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I confess, however, there is a very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the birthplace of the millions of millions of animalcula and confervae: for whence come the germs at such points?
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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To fa - vour their progrefs in ripening, the fol - lowing cautions have been put in prac - tice: To take them from the trees when dry; to lay them carefully in a heap, fo as that none of them may be brufed; then they place them in a warmer part of the confervatory, and cover them clofe to keep up their perfpiration; which confin* - ing the moiflare will efFedl.
The Fruit-gardener: Containing the Method of Raising Stocks, for Multiplying of Fruit-trees, by ...
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A plant of this kind is not the less dominant because some conferva inhabiting the water or some parasitic fungus is infinitely more numerous in individuals and more widely diffused.
II. Variation under Nature. Wide-Ranging, Much Diffused, and Common Species Vary Most
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Had two," said Dick, watching the approaching punt, which was still half a mile away, and being poled steadily in and out of the winding water-lane, now hidden by the dry rustling reeds which stood covered with strands of filmy conferva or fen scum.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
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I confess, however, there is a very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the birthplace of the millions of millions of animalcula and confervae: for whence come the germs at such points?
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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(Hydroporus thermalis), Gallionellae, Oscillatoria and Confervae, while their waters bathe the root-fibers of phanerogamic plants.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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_Conferva crispata_ again, as mentioned above, occurs in several localities; and in one locality a beautiful unbranched _Conferva, _ with torulose articulations.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class.
II. Variation under Nature. Wide-Ranging, Much Diffused, and Common Species Vary Most
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Microscopic animals produced from all vegetable and animal infusions; generate others like themselves by solitary reproduction; not produced from eggs; conferva fontinalis; mucor.
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The floor of the mortar gallery having been already laid down by Mr. Watt and his men on a former visit, was merely soaked with the sprays; but the joisting-beams which supported it had, in the course of the winter, been covered with a fine downy conferva produced by the range of the sea.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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I saw them here wading about in search of food — probably for the worms which burrow in the mud; and these latter probably feed on infusoria or confervae.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
