. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Animal and Vegetable Hedgehogs 163 shrubs from Mexico, Arabia, Australia, and Peru find a congenial honie. It is really the prickliest thing I know, for its branches are very stiff and its points very sharp, and 1 have never tried to handle one without wounding myself severely. The same conditions which make prickly animals make prickly plants; and Colletia is prickliness pushed to its utmost possible limit. It is true, the sharp ends are not so numerous as in many other instances, but
. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Animal and Vegetable Hedgehogs 163 shrubs from Mexico, Arabia, Australia, and Peru find a congenial honie. It is really the prickliest thing I know, for its branches are very stiff and its points very sharp, and 1 have never tried to handle one without wounding myself severely. The same conditions which make prickly animals make prickly plants; and Colletia is prickliness pushed to its utmost possible limit. It is true, the sharp ends are not so numerous as in many other instances, but they are as hard as steel, and as penetrating as a surgical instrument. Nobody tries twice to fight a Colletia. Our common English gorse, represented in No. ID, will help to show how foliage-leaves can be developed into mere defensive spines, as we saw with the cactuses. I have already explained in a previous volume that the young gorse seedling has trefoil leaves like a clover, and have pointed out how, as it grows older, the successive blades become sharper and. NO. 9.—A PLANT OF THE SAMK TYPE—THE 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. Toronto : W. Briggs
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