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Scientific American, Vol. 30, No. 21 (May 1874) (1874)

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An illustration from Scientific American, Vol. 30, No. 21 (May 1874), 1874, leaf 8
ing the shrinking of the leaves of the sensitive plant or to In a future issue we shall present engravings of several The echinocactus myriostigma (Fig. 5) may be described as examining the strange forms of the aloe or cactus. other curious plants and flowers, which will doubtless prove a civilized… … deadly rifle. Seeing the turkey struggling in the ago- of the ferns, the Dicksonia antarctica. The trunk varies nies of death fills the parrot with the most fiendish de- Fig. 1.—Wigandia Caracasana. considerably in thickness, and in its native country, Aus- light, to which he gives utterance in a…

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