 Scotch fir was afterwards supplanted by the sessile variety of the common oak, of which many prostrate trunks occur in the peat at higher levels than the pines ; and still higher the pedunculated variety of the same oak (Quwcus Robur L.) occurs with the...  The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man - Page 9by Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1863 - 626 pages
...at higher levels than the pines ; and still higher the peduuculated variety of the same oak (Querctu Robur, L.) occurs with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa,...from the higher ; while others again, like the aspen (Populw tremula), occur at all levels, and still nourish in Denmark. All the land and fresh-water shells,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1863 - 736 pages
...at higher levels than the pines ; and still higher the pedunculated variety of the same oak (Quercux Robur, L.) occurs with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa,...common beech. Other trees, such as the white birch (llrtnlu dCba), characterise the lower part of the bogs, and disappear from the higher ; while others... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...pedunculatcd variety of the same oak (Quercus Bobitr, L.) occurs with the alder, birch (Belula verrucota, Ehrh.), and hazel. The oak has now in its turn been...Denmark by the common beech. Other trees, such as tho white birch (Betula alba), characterise tho lower part of the bogs, and disappear from the higher... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...Quercus Robur, L. ) occurs, with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa, JEhrh.), and hazel. The oak has in its turn been almost superseded in Denmark by the...from the higher; while others again, like the aspen (Popvlua trcmula}, occur at all levels, and still flourish in Denmark. All the land and fresh-water... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1864 - 626 pages
...still higher, the pedunculated variety of the same oak (Quercus Hobur) occurs, with the alder, birch, and hazel. The oak has now, in its turn, been almost superseded in Denmark by the common beech." The trace of the first race of men — that of the stone age — having been found beneath the peat... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1865 - 634 pages
...higher levels than the pines ; and still higher the pedunculated variety of the same oak ( Quercus Robur, L.) occurs, with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa, Ehrh.), and hazel. The oak has in its turn been almost superseded in Denmark by the common beech. Other trees, such as the white birch... | |
 | John Duns - Religion and science - 1899 - 330 pages
...pedunculated variety of the same oak (Quercus robur, L.) occurs with the older birch (Betula vcrrucosa, Ehr.) and hazel. The oak has now in its turn been almost...levels, and still flourish in Denmark. All the land and fresh water shells, and all the mammalia as well as plants whose remains occur buried in the Danish... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 pages
...Quercus Robur, L.) occurs, with the alder, birch (Betula verrucosa, Elirh.)t and hazel. The oak has in its turn been almost superseded in Denmark by the common beech. Othor trees, such as the white birch (Betula alba), characterize the lower part of the bogs, and disappear... | |
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