10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRYONIES»
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In his earlier paper (6) he regards it as certain that bryonies is an ancient form
dating from the glacial period and that napi has been very gradually evolved from
it as temperate conditions supervened. In the later paper (7) from the fact that two
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Sir Henry C. Burdett, John Bretland Farmer, 1898
2
Science Progress A quarterly review
At and above 3000 feet or rather less, bryonies may often be met with in those
valleys which descend from the high mountains. It is in the female that this variety
is clearly marked, being characterised by the presence of bands of brown scales
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Single-broodedness. — In Europe, Pieris bryonies of the Alps and far north is
generally assumed to be the one-brooded ancestor of the double- brooded P.
napi of the lowlands, and there is a tendency to assume that multiplication of the
brood ...
As an example take the species Pieris napi and P. bryonies. These species have
been the subjects of many breeding experiments. What may have struck some
collectors was the imperfect knowledge often displayed concerning the variation,
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5
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
Weismann was thus led to regard the single-brooded variety bryonies as the
original form of the species from the glacial period, and napi in its winter and
summer forms as gradually produced under increasing climatic warmth.
6
The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London
Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited specimens of local forms and varieties of Lepidoptera,
taken by Mr. Percy Russ, near Sligo, including Pieris napi, var. near bryonies ;
Antho- charis cardamines (male), with the orange blotch edged with yellow, and ...
Among them the Black and White Bryonies are distinguished. The berries, also,
of many of these little plants are variously coloured, in the different stages of their
growth — yellow, red, and orange. All these rich touches, however small, ...
Francis George Heath, 1880
8
The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine
Note on Pieris napi, var. bryonies. — Mr. Barrett, p. 329, in volume for 1891 of this
Magazine, draws attention to an Irish specimen of Pieris napi, which in colour
approximates closely to the variety Iryonice of that species. I have two singular ...
... peltigera, 136 Hemiptera-Heteroptera, 312 Hepialidte, Australian, 114 Hepialis
humuli, 204 ; velleda, 268 Hermaphrodites : Bombyx castrensis, 42 ; Gonopteryx
rhamni, 204 ; Pieris napi var. bryonies, 258 ; Saturniacarpini,164 Hertfordshire ...
10
Life and Sport in Hampshire
Here the climbing and grasping method is little like that of bryonies or clematis.
The ivy roots itself in. Everything it seizes it grows into, becomes almost parcel of.
Here, perhaps, is the fastest plant hold of all ; and it need have a firmer hold than
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George Albemarle Bertie Dewar, 1908
