Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 472
each of the thousands ofleaves on a tree is so placed as toform a system of arrangement. In the plant, the leaf has uses sim-ilar to those of the lungs and sto-mach in animals. The leaf is a de-vice for exposing green tissue to theair and sunlight. Gases are takenin and pass out. The leaf thus… … 1030 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. BIG AND BEAUTIFUL MOTHS. You may keep the cocoons, wrote Mrs.Bel, who furnished the specimens for the illus-trations in her article, Gathering Cocoons, on^age 455 of the MarchNature and Science.
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