. Relics from the Rockies. . ualreport of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80. THE RESURRECTION PLANT, [A NATURAL CURIOSITY FROM ACAPULCO, MEXICO.] This singular plant is really one of the won-ders of creation. Imagine a bunch of with-ered looking, curled up shoots, brown, stiff,and apparently dead, resembling a birds it in water. In half an hour whattransformation ! The withered looking bunchhas now opened and is transformed into alovely patch of moss, entirely covering an or-dinary plate. In its native habitat, when thedry season sets in, the plant curls up into around ball and is wa
. Relics from the Rockies. . ualreport of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80. THE RESURRECTION PLANT, [A NATURAL CURIOSITY FROM ACAPULCO, MEXICO.] This singular plant is really one of the won-ders of creation. Imagine a bunch of with-ered looking, curled up shoots, brown, stiff,and apparently dead, resembling a birds it in water. In half an hour whattransformation ! The withered looking bunchhas now opened and is transformed into alovely patch of moss, entirely covering an or-dinary plate. In its native habitat, when thedry season sets in, the plant curls up into around ball and is wafted away by winds fromplace to place, sometimes tor hundreds ofmiles, when at last it reaches a moist spot itgradually unfolds itself, makes New roots andthrives in its new found home. This sensitiveness to moisture is so great that evenafter the plant may seem dead it will openand close as if it were alive. Price, 20 centseach, three for 50 cents, post paid. Address H. H. TAMMEN, Sixteenth and Curtis Streets, Denver, 20 RELICS FROM THE ROCKIES. MOKI INDIAN IDOLS.
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