THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



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ness of the fact put forward by the great Dutch anatomist. 

 M. Ch. Musset has discovered that a plant of the same 



185. Edible Arum: Colocasia esculenta (Scbott.) 



family as has been mentioned, the Edible Arum, launches 

 little drops of water in the form of a jet into the air, and 

 that these exhale from the pores which .we see on the tips 



