| 1850 - 806 str.
...palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from one to two and a-half inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants the " flor do coco." The light given out by a few of these fungi in a dark room was sufficient to read... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1840 - 492 str.
...phosphorescent light, somewhat similar to that emitted by the larger fire-flies, having a pale greenish hue. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants " Flor de Coco." VILLA DC NATIVIHAIIK, FROTIKCE or GOYAZ, BRAZIL, December 13th, I8S9. Upon the subject of the above... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1844 - 726 str.
...belong to the same groups of Composite as Mr. Bentham's. VOL. III. Y flies, having a pale greenish hue. From this circumstance and from growing on a palm,...it is called by the inhabitants " Flor de Coco" The plate of this is particularly well executed in chalk-lithographic (the others are done in line) and... | |
| George Gardner - 1846 - 606 str.
...palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from one to two and a half inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants "Flor do Coco;" the light given out by a few of these fungi, in a dark room, was sufficient to read by. It... | |
| 1847 - 538 str.
...belonging to the genus Agaricus, and was told that it grew abundantly in the neighbourhood, on the decaying leaves of a dwarf palm. Next day I obtained a great...or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosomte. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants " Flor... | |
| 1847 - 862 str.
...palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from one to two and a-half inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pynsonur. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants ' Flor... | |
| David Badham - 1847 - 244 str.
...palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from one to two and a half inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyroaonue ; from this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it ii called by the inhabitants ' Flor... | |
| 1847 - 508 str.
...leaves of a dwarf palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from 1 to 2J inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosomee. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants " Flor... | |
| 1847 - 490 str.
...leaves of a dwarf palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and found them to vary from 1 to 2J inches across. The whole plant gives out at night...emitted by the larger fire-flies, or by those curious sofl-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosoma. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is... | |
| Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1848 - 400 str.
...told that it grew abundantly in the ncighbourhood, on the decaying leaves of a dwarf palm. It varied from 1 to 2£ inches across. The whole plant gives...or by those curious soft-bodied marine animals, the Pyrosotnte. From this circumstance, and from growing on a palm, it is called by the inhabitants " Flor... | |
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