. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. A Plant that Melts Ice 33 main unhurt by it. The food and fuel they have gathered is stored partly the foliage and partly in the swollen underground root-stock. All winter through, the plant is thus hidden under a compact blanket of snow, which becomes gradually hard and ice-like by pressure. But as soon as the spring sun begins to melt the surface at the lower f ii. r NO. I.—LEAVES OF IN AUTUMN, FAT WITH FUEL, SEEN FROM . edge of the sheet, water trickles down through cracks in the ice, and sets the
. Flashlights on nature [microform]. Insects; Plants; Insectes; Plantes. A Plant that Melts Ice 33 main unhurt by it. The food and fuel they have gathered is stored partly the foliage and partly in the swollen underground root-stock. All winter through, the plant is thus hidden under a compact blanket of snow, which becomes gradually hard and ice-like by pressure. But as soon as the spring sun begins to melt the surface at the lower f ii. r NO. I.—LEAVES OF IN AUTUMN, FAT WITH FUEL, SEEN FROM . edge of the sheet, water trickles down through cracks in the ice, and sets the root-stock budding. It produces, in fact, the very same effect as the water which we pour upon malting barley in order to make it germinate. And the same result follows, though here more definitely, for the sol- C j i »: ll. 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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