. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. -;||.-, Plants as Learners. Now the qucstiDii is. How • ,imc .ibinit lliis ^ ;iiul somewhat liorrlil mtans of livelihood? How ilid ]) of so diverse fuiiiiies 'urn the l;ililes on the insect world, and learn to instead of lieiiig themselves devmired? A iieyinner ni the builder's art finds it nmeh more gainful to examine the iiiasonry oi fniiiulalions. the re.'.riny of avails, the plaeing of yirdrrs and joists, the springing of .inhes and Imtlresses, than to look at a eath
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. -;||.-, Plants as Learners. Now the qucstiDii is. How • ,imc .ibinit lliis ^ ;iiul somewhat liorrlil mtans of livelihood? How ilid ]) of so diverse fuiiiiies 'urn the l;ililes on the insect world, and learn to instead of lieiiig themselves devmired? A iieyinner ni the builder's art finds it nmeh more gainful to examine the iiiasonry oi fniiiulalions. the re.'.riny of avails, the plaeing of yirdrrs and joists, the springing of .inhes and Imtlresses, than to look at a , a rourt honse, or a lunk, f;nished and in ser\ lie. In like manner a stndent of plains tries to find their leaves in the making, in ,ill the vari ous stages whieh bridj;e their coinnion lorins with the shapes tliey assume when fully armed and busy. Avaihii;; himself of the relapses into old habits whieh plants oeeasionally exhibit under eultivation, Mr. lM<;ksoii has taught us miuh regarding the the piieher plant of Australia, the , has <ome to be what it is. lie has arranged in a scries all the lorins of its leaf from that of a nor- iinl leaf witii a mere dimple in it, to the deeply pouched and lidded piti her ready for deceitful hospitalities. .\nd .similar transformations have without doiilit taken place in the pit 1(1 Hope have noted two plants J\oriJii/<i </<•/;/,;/,; <;//teps of the sundews, and may be expeiled ia the fulness of years to be their eipial partners in crime. Hut why need we wander so far as Southern .Africa to find the germs of this strange rapacity when we can see at home a lull species of catchHy. sedums, primulas, and geraniums pouring out glutiii ous juices in which insects are entangled.' I-el stress d tinned, force any of these to turn to thedii and how soon might not the plant hnd in felony the sii--i hone: t toil ? Picking and Choosing. But after all the plant
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