4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
and whales. 
A conspicuous illustration of a biological misfit is the Cacta- 
cew, a family of horrid armament and wonderful floral develop- 
by weak productive organs and inability to adjust itself to humid 
conditions that it cannot become a m he religionist will 
point this out as a special provision of an all-wise Creator, but the 
scientist will reply that if He were all-wise He would not have let 
such an emergency arise, but fo him it is simply a case of a family 
carried away by a craze for floral and spine development to the det- 
riment of self-propagation. 
