Plants and their ways in South Africa . ess con-genial. It is to their advantage to appropriate as much soil aspossible to the exclusion of others of their own or of differentkinds. Some species of Brunsvigia and Hcemanihus spreadtheir flat leaves closely upon the ground, preventing othersfrom gaining a foothold, and smothering any weaker plant whichmay have taken root in the soil which their leaves can the plants appropriate water and food material from a widearea. Foreign Immigration.—Have you ever thought howmuch or how little South Africa owes to other countries forits flora? Dr.
Plants and their ways in South Africa . ess con-genial. It is to their advantage to appropriate as much soil aspossible to the exclusion of others of their own or of differentkinds. Some species of Brunsvigia and Hcemanihus spreadtheir flat leaves closely upon the ground, preventing othersfrom gaining a foothold, and smothering any weaker plant whichmay have taken root in the soil which their leaves can the plants appropriate water and food material from a widearea. Foreign Immigration.—Have you ever thought howmuch or how little South Africa owes to other countries forits flora? Dr. Bolus, in his * Sketch of South African Flora,mentions as one of its peculiarities its power to resist the Climbing Plants and Plant Migrations 127 aggression of foreign invaders. The bulbous plants offer amost determined resistance to other plants. Even SouthAfrican plants seldom spread when removed from their re-stricted locality. A Mimosa [Acacia horrida, Willd.) wasplanted in Wellington as a thank-offering for a difficult journey.
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