. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. roughoiit ossom ill :^egins to r cousin d it goes 1 of gold ^ger sort replaces up the this way right day le year— , no day to gather hich one i or the t seek to friendly lelp it to us seeds, ic in the he larger >wn gorse )hall deal though I •ation or e-history that each, not as a and un- you the A Very Intelligent Plant 263 young furze bush in its earliest infantile stage, when it is still essentially a two-leaved seedling. This seedling grows from a small bean scattered by the parent plant in a very curious way, which
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. roughoiit ossom ill :^egins to r cousin d it goes 1 of gold ^ger sort replaces up the this way right day le year— , no day to gather hich one i or the t seek to friendly lelp it to us seeds, ic in the he larger >wn gorse )hall deal though I •ation or e-history that each, not as a and un- you the A Very Intelligent Plant 263 young furze bush in its earliest infantile stage, when it is still essentially a two-leaved seedling. This seedling grows from a small bean scattered by the parent plant in a very curious way, which I will explain later. Thousands of die beans lie on the ground in every common, and only a few germinate, under favourable circumstances, into two-leaved seedlings, like those represented in these illustrations. The leaves of the first pair spread out fiat on the surface of the unoccupied soil and drink in the sunlight. They also drink in, what is equally important to them, tile carbonic acid of the air, and manufac- ture from it the living material of fresh leaves by the aid of the sun- light. For the first few days of its life, the young gorse plant lives mainly on the food laid up for it in the bean by the parent bush ; but as soon as this is exhausted, and it has accumulated a little stock of its own by its private exertions, it begins to manufacture new leaves and branches that it may rise above the tangled mass of competitors by which its birth- place is NO. 2.—Till'. COUSK riANT AT OMC WKKK 01 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : G. Newnes
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