. The human side of plants. orning once more exhibited them in fullglory. His gardener declared that his master musthave been mistaken, and that these could not bethe same flowers, but must be fresh blossoms. Lin-naeus was too much of a philosopher to be satisfiedwith such an idle conclusion, and in the evening heexamined the plant, carefully taking it up leaf byleaf, until he discovered that the blossoms had beenquite hidden by the drooping foliage. This lotusis a butterfly-shaped flower; and he found, uponlooking farther, that the lupins, the garden acacias,peas, and many more flowers simila
. The human side of plants. orning once more exhibited them in fullglory. His gardener declared that his master musthave been mistaken, and that these could not bethe same flowers, but must be fresh blossoms. Lin-naeus was too much of a philosopher to be satisfiedwith such an idle conclusion, and in the evening heexamined the plant, carefully taking it up leaf byleaf, until he discovered that the blossoms had beenquite hidden by the drooping foliage. This lotusis a butterfly-shaped flower; and he found, uponlooking farther, that the lupins, the garden acacias,peas, and many more flowers similarly shaped, wereaffected in nearly the same way by the influenceof night. However, plants fold their leaves and flowers forother causes than darkness. The opening and clos-ing of certain flowers is not influenced to any largeextent by light and darkness, as they wake andsleep irrespective of the sun. This habit of sleepingat different times of the day is one of the strangestthings in regard to the sleeping habits of CERKUS. Cereiis grandiflonis. Having slept all day, the flowers open at nightfall, and l)y their powerful IJerfume attract insects from far and near.
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