. A year of Costa Rican natural history. trunk and between the buttress-likeridges of the trunk where such ridges existed. As usualthere were numerous aroids in the undergrowth and not afew in the form of vines climbing the tree-trunks. Thebright green of fresh new Heliconia leaves relieved the darkgreen picture. One morning one of these, a fresh, young,perfect leaf, was smoking conspicuously; the sun had justbegun to fall on it, and with such force that the leaf tran-spired or lost water vapor as a visible mist some inches wideand rising several feet above the leaf tip before it was lostin th
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. trunk and between the buttress-likeridges of the trunk where such ridges existed. As usualthere were numerous aroids in the undergrowth and not afew in the form of vines climbing the tree-trunks. Thebright green of fresh new Heliconia leaves relieved the darkgreen picture. One morning one of these, a fresh, young,perfect leaf, was smoking conspicuously; the sun had justbegun to fall on it, and with such force that the leaf tran-spired or lost water vapor as a visible mist some inches wideand rising several feet above the leaf tip before it was lostin the air. Termites nests, high on tree-trunks, and with coveredtrails leading up and down, were common. A typical foresttree with a stem immensely tall before it branched, borea termites nest at a height of more than forty feet from theground. The brown line marking the covered gallery wasvery distinct against the pale bark and visible for quite adistance. Bits of broken termites nests were abundanton the ground in this part of the ^
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