VI. KEVOLVING PLANTS. 



" The rounded world is fair to see, 

 Nine times folded in mystery ; 

 Though baffled ears cannot impart 

 The secret of its labouring heart, 

 Throb thine with Nature's throbbing brea 

 And all is clear from east to west ; 

 Spirit that lurks each form within 

 Beckons to spirit of its kin ; 

 Self -kin died every atom glows 

 And hints the future which it shows.'' EMERSON. 



THE Voluoiv glolator here sketched is a very small 

 and beautiful plant. To those unacquainted with the 

 revelations of the microscope, this statement will 

 appear rather startling, so different is this organism 

 from what are usually known as plants. The fact 

 is that we are here again on the border-land or de- 

 bateable ground between vegetable and animal life ; 

 and although the botanists have established their 

 claim to the Fblvocine&, there being more of the 

 vegetable than of the animal in them, yet the posi- 



