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ARCTIC PLANTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



ARCTIC PLANTS VARIETIES OF CLIMATE AND EFFECT UPON 

 VEGETATION RHODODENDRONS TEA MODE OF PREPARA- 

 TION BARREN PINE PITCHER PLANT SPIKENARD 



SAFFRON CROCUSSES MOTION IN PLANTS SENSITIVE 

 PLANT VENUS FLY-TRAP ROOTS OF PLANTS. 



T is very interesting and instructive 

 to examine into the character of the 

 different plants which are adapted to 

 various sections of the globe. 



While there is but little doubt 

 that Nature no where displays her 

 gaudy colorings in greater profusion, or to 

 better advantage than in the wilds of South 

 America, yet there are many other lands 

 where the productions of the vegetable king- 

 dom are no less useful and attractive. Even the ice- 

 bound regions of the Arctic Circle can boast of their 

 green mossy banks and smiling flowers, which are 

 certainly none the less remarkable for the fact that, 

 owing to the shortness of the summer season, the 

 process of vegetation is so rapid, that in some species 

 the whole time required to reach maturity is little 

 more than a month. 



