In the 14 years we have lived in our house, I have killed virtually every form of flora I have encountered.
Pre- and post-harvest data were collected from 420 permanent vegetation plots to determine if changes in the composition and diversity of ground flora depended upon the intensity of the harvest treatment and, if so, how this varied among life forms of ground flora.
Designs from Kashmir were more distinctively regional in their reference, with two forms of local flora — poppy blossoms and spiky chinar leaves — becoming as ubiquitous as brand-name labels.
Harvest intensity also caused a proportional impact on the collective relative cover of seven identified life forms of ground flora: annuals/biennials, forbs, graminoids, legumes, woody vines, shrubs, and tree seedlings.
Massive stores of carbon — in the form of ancient flora and fauna — are frozen in the Arctic ground.
As the post-earthquake churches were becoming completed in the late 1720s, interiors also began to reflect this external decoration, becoming lighter and less intense (compare illustration 14 to the later interior of illustration 15), with profuse sculpted ornamentation of pillars, cornices, and pediments, often in the form of putti, flora, and fauna.
Figure 2 Habit and life form of the floras of various habitat types in Srinagar city.
A defector from the cult of modernism, Schlumberger created jewelry whose forms originated in what one critic called "a parade of flora, fauna and everyday objects".
Figure 5 An example of the exuberance in detail, heterogeneity and form of the OCBIL flora.
At entry the majority of patients (81 %) had the most severe form of abnormal vaginal flora (LBG III), while the remaining had LBG IIb.
