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We regret that the small size of our plate will not admit of our giving representation of those leaves, and of their mode of growth, which so strikingly characterizes the plant and adds so considerably to its beauty Mr. AITON informs us that this species is a native of Madeira, from whence it was introduced here by Mr. FRANCIS MASSON in 1778 It flowers from May to September, is usually and readily raised from seeds, nor is it so tender as many other green-house plants Illustration 207 DIANTHUS BARBATUS.— The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
This species is also nearly worthless as a stock for shagbark, shell bark, and hybrids, although many more varieties will live on it than will on pignut stocks SHAGBARK (_Carya ovata_).— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951
These are species--Buffon adheres to the genetic definition of species--and the species is a much more definite unit than the genus, the order, the class, which are not divisions imposed by us upon Nature.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
And because the species were able to be both in the hands and the mouth of Christ, the entire Christ could be in both His hands and mouth.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Another species is the sin that is completed in thought and word: and yet a third species is the sin that is completed in thought, word, and deed; and the quasi-integral parts of this last sin, are that which is in thought, that which is in word, and that which is in deed.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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