42 SAGACITY AND MORALITY OF PLANTS. 



shade, have learned the lessons of their specific 

 lives in the same school of experience. No genuine 



Y\G. 15. — Butcher's Broom (^Riiscns aculeatns), with flattened branches or cladodes 

 doing duty for true leaves. 



botanist can regard that remarkable and unique 

 British plant, the Butcher's Broom {Rtcsciis aculeatns). 



