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SAGACriY AND MORALITY OF PLAXTS. 



Fig. 72. — Autumn Squill {Scilla auticmnale), showing 

 large bulb, or store of food-stuflf. The reader will 

 notice how much larger is the bulb of the advanced irif|iyiri 113.1 

 Squill with coloured flowers than that of the Garlic 

 with smaller and nearly inconspicuous kinds. 



was day," against 

 the dark, cold 

 months, and thus 

 were enabled to 

 store up an ex- 

 cess of food -ma- 

 terial, generally 

 in the form of 

 buds or bulbs, 

 after the same 

 fashion that the 

 bears, squirrels, 

 and foxes of Arctic 

 regions get fat 

 just before they 

 retire to sleep the 

 winter through in 

 the hybernating 

 state. Most of 

 our perennial her- 

 baceous plants 

 die down to the 

 ground as the 

 winter comes on ; 

 but we shall in- 

 variably find that 

 they depend upon 

 next summer's 

 resur- 



