Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 454
prickles around the blossoms toexclude undesirable visitors. Many others havepeculiar means of obtaining similar protection. The jack-in-the-pulpit, or our memory plant,has its weapons in the underground bulb, andthese consist of minute needles of crystal, aboutone five-hundredths of an inch in… … A MAGNIFIED VIEW OF A SMALL PIECEOF MEMORY ROOT. lifts every autumn on the top of a long stem.But no boy or other animal will more than oncemolest the bulb, and our young folks should nevereat the berries. The picture shows a magnified bit of the root 942 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Aug.,…
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